Shock v. State

The appellant, who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment in the Indiana State Prison for the rape of a female child under the age of twelve years, petitions this court for a writ of error coram nobis, alleging that his conviction was secured by the perjured evidence of the prosecuting witness, who now repudiates the same in an affidavit filed as an exhibit to the petition, and prays that he be permitted to file in the Allen Circuit Court a motion for a new trial and that the Allen Circuit Court be directed to consider said motion and investigate and decide the truth or falsity of the…