Ex Parte Taylor

This is an original application to this court for leave to file a petition for the common-law writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, wherein petitioner was tried and convicted of a capital felony and sentenced to suffer death by electrocution, which said judgment was affirmed here on the 24th day of April, 1947, the style of the case being Taylor v. State, ante, p. 130, 30 So.2d 256.

The defendant’s petition alleges that he was arrested by police officers of Prichard, Alabama, at 11:30 p. m. on June 29, 1946, and at the time of his arrest three other men, towit,…