Freeland v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal from denial of writ of error coram nobis was submitted here June 2, 1966, on written argument.

I

Freeland's petition for the writ was defective in that it failed to aver when and for what Freeland was originally convicted.

His complaint was (1) that a policeman without a warrant therefor searched a car owned by Robert Lee Woods seizing a shotgun therefrom; and (2) that city detectives “forced [him] under duress to make a statement * * * which stated petitioner was guilty of an alleged robbery of Spur Service Station * *

After counsel had been appointed for him by the…