Nelson v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Howard E. Nelson files this appeal from the denial of his petition for writ of error coram nobis seeking to have his original appeal reinstated because of his allegation of the ineffective assistance of counsel at the time of his original trial in that such counsel failed to timely perfect an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

The pertinent facts are these. There were two indictments returned against Howard E. Nelson in November, 1984 by the Grand Jury of Etowah County, Alabama. The first charged the appellant with sex abuse in the first degree and a second with…