Ex Parte Goodman

CATES, Judge.

This original action was submitted March 24, 1966.

Goodman complains that some sixty days beforehand he had a hearing in the Monroe Circuit Court on his petition for a writ of error coram nobis and that the matter is still under advisement.

Court congestion is a frequently heard criticism of our system of public justice. A reference to Dean Pound’s 1906 St. Paul Address, “Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice,” is of cold, if not cruel, comfort to a pauper convict.

On the other hand, we must point out that Goodman presumably has had a day in court,…