Legal Opinion
Pike v. State
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 13, 1956PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliamson, J.
This writ of error coram nobis is before us on exceptions by the petitioner, a prisoner at the State Prison, after a decision in substance affirming the judgment of which he complained. The decision was entered after hearing on the writ by the presiding Justice of the Superior Court in Penobscot County at the September Term 1955. The case was heard and decided before the decision in Dwyer v. State, 151 Me. 382 was entered in January 1956 in which the procedure in coram nobis was discussed at length.
In the instant case we find the essential procedural requirements have been met, although not…
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