Clark v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Otis Clark from a judgment of the Marshall Circuit Court which denied him a writ of coram nobis. Clark, who evidently is not a lawyer, attempted to represent himself in seeking to be released from prison on this rather technical writ, and, as may be expected, we are presented with a conglomerate and unintelligible record.

A paper which the pleader intended as his petition shows Clark was convicted in 1948 in the Marshall Circuit Court on three indictments which charged him with passing on three different occasions “cold” checks for more than…