People v. Williams

In this handwritten motion for coram nobis relief, defendant advances three reasons why the judgment of conviction, entered upon his plea of guilty in 1948, should be set aside after a hearing.

*539These alleged reasons are: (a) An unlawful search and seizure; (b) coercion of his confession under constraint of physical force employed by the arresting officer; and (c) fear resulting from the suggestion made by defendant’s counsel that defendant would be electrocuted, if he would not plead guilty to murder, second degree. Frightened, he entered such plea.

Considering these reasons in inverse order, I…