Johnson v. State

A judgment of conviction for manslaughter against the plaintiff in error was affirmed by this- Court. Permission having been granted by us, application for writ of error coram nobis was filed in the circuit court. The State moved to dismiss on the ground that the application was filed after the time allowed under the law for filing such applications. Pleas were also filed testing the sufficiency of the application on which it was predicated. The trial court sustained the pleas and dismissed application. This writ of error is to the latter order.

The gist of the affidavit on which the…