State v. Eaton

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Buchanan County dismissing defendant’s motion “in the, nature of a writ of error coram nobis” to set aside and vacate a judgment of conviction rendered by that court in 1945 whereby defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in .the State Penitentiary for a term of 18 years for the murder of one William Van Ross. See State v. Eaton, 355 Mo. 164, 195 S.W.2d 457.

The motion recites the filing of the information by the prosecuting attorney of Buchanan County and defendant’s subsequent trial, conviction, sentence and…