Senn v. State

JOHNSON, Judge.

In October, 1959, appellant was tried and convicted for the offense of grand larceny and sentenced to a term of eight years in the penitentiary as punishment therefor. An appeal was commenced by appellant but upon request by appellant it was dismissed. This is an appeal from the dismissal of a Petition for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis by the appellant filed in the Circuit Court of Houston County, Alabama, on July 20, 1965.

The first ground of the petition was that Judge Keener Baxley, Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, was disqualified to preside over the trial…