Legal Opinion

Kelley v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided December 11, 1922PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court refusing to issue a writ of error coram nobis for the purpose of inquiring into the question of appellant’s sanity at the time of his trial and conviction of a felony during a former term of the court.

It has been decided by this court that the method of reviewing an order of the circuit judge in vacation refusing to issue such a writ is by certiorari, but since the” record is now before us and could be treated as being here on certiorari, we pretermit decision of the question whether the record should have been brought up by writ of…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Adler v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1880
  2. Howard v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1893
  3. Ince v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
  4. Kelley v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
  5. Hydrick v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Carruthers v. ReedCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
  2. State v. HudspethSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1935
  3. Blodgett v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1952
  4. Howell v. KincannonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1930
  5. Jenkins v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1954

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