Simas v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a dismissal on motion of the State of a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis. The target of the petition is the judgment of conviction and sentence of petitioner for theft in the first degree, which judgment was affirmed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on October 6, 1981, rehearing denied on October 27, 1981, and certiorari denied by the Alabama Supreme Court on December 18, 1981 (Simas v. State, 410 So.2d 139-143).

Among the grounds of the motion to dismiss were (1) that it affirmatively appeared as a matter of…