Allen v. State

CATES, Judge.

On July 12, 1962, Allen petitioned the Pickens Circuit Court for a writ of error coram nobis. Iiis object was to set aside two sentences 1 of four years each imposed in 1960 on verdicts of guilt of second degree burglary.

The trial judge appointed two attorneys to represent Allen. These gentlemen filed supplemental petitions which enlarged the grounds to thirty in all of errors claimed to infect the original arrest, indictment and trial.

After a full hearing, on testimony viva voce and on the transcript of the evidence taken on the original trial, the circuit judge made eighteen…