Murray v. State

On August 13,1953, appellant, without benefit of counsel, entered a plea of guilty to a charge by affidavit that he committed the “abominable and detestable crime against nature with a beast,” and was sentenced under Acts 1905, ch. 169, §473,p. 584, being §10-4221, Burns’ 1956 Replacement, to the Indiana State Prison for a term of not less than two [2] nor more than fifteen [15] years. 1

On January 20, 1956, appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis which, as amended, alleged, in pertinent parts, the following:

“Petitioner further alleges that at the time he entered the plea of…