Breaz v. State

Appellant was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to imprisonment by the Criminal Court of Lake County on a charge of robbery. He appealed to this court, which affirmed the judgment on April 5, 1938 (Breaz v. State, 214 Ind. 31, 13 N. E. [2d] 952). He subsequently filed in the court below a verified petition for a writ of error coram nobis, which the state answered by general denial and by way of counter-affidavits. The petition was heard by the same trial judge before whom the original case was tried, and at the conclusion of the appellant’s evidence both parties asked for a favorable…