Ex Parte Wilson

HARWOOD, Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of error looking toward a review of a judgment denying the petitioner relief in a coram nobis proceeding. The judgment below was entered after a full hearing.

Coram nobis proceedings are essentially civil in nature, and in Brown v. State, 250 Ala. 444, 35 So.2d 518, coram nobis was described as being “in the nature of a new civil suit.”

Under our practice and procedure appeals lie from final judgments denying relief in coram nobis proceedings. Allen v. State, Ala.App., 150 So.2d 399.

Section 383, Title 15, Code of Alabama 1940, provides: “A writ of…