Rodgers v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of the City of St. Louis denying petitioner’s motion for a writ of error coram nobis without an evidentiary hearing and without the appointment of counsel. We affirm.

Appellant’s motion for a writ of error coram nobis sought to vacate judgments of conviction entered on guilty pleas to the offenses of assault with intent to maim without malice, § 559.190, RSMo. and stealing from a person, § 560.156, RSMo. Both charges arose out of the same set of circumstances involving the theft of a coat from a boy on the way home from a party.

The state had…