Snodgrass v. Snodgrass

The submission is on motion and on merits.

At the time of filing the transcript, motion or petition in the nature of the common-law writ of error coram nobis, or coram vobis, was also filed. Authority for the petition is urged under provisions of section 140 of the Constitution. That section of the organic law is without application to the procedure sought by the motion. The writ of coram nobis, or coram vobis, as it is sometimes indiscriminately called, was recognized to be of force in this jurisdiction, in Holford v. Alexander, 12 Ala. 280, 46 Am. Dec. 253. It was there held the writ can be…