Ex Parte Cruse

This court issued the writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals, 474 So.2d 106, in order to review that court's affirmance of the trial court's denial of petitioner's petition for the writ of error coram nobis. We reverse.

For an understanding of the issues here to be examined we set out pertinent portions of petitioner's petition for writ of error coram nobis:

"PETITION FOR WRIT OF ERROR CORAM NOBIS

"Comes now John Anthony Cruse, a minor born May 31, 1966, by and through Thomas M. Haas, Attorney at Law, and files this his Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis, and, in support of said…