Nadeau v. State

On appeal from the dismissal of a writ of error coram nobis, and affirmation of judgment for the State.

The petitioner-appellant Louis Nadeau was convicted of the crime of murder at the January 1950 Term of the York County Superior Court and was sentenced to mandatory imprisonment for life. By an undated document which was subscribed and sworn to on March 19, 1962 he applied for a writ of error coram nobis alleging a denial of his constitutional right to a fair and impartial trial and the benefit of “due process of law”; that a confession was obtained from him by force; that because of his…