Woodruff v. State

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

E. L. Woodruff filed his petition in circuit court for writ of error coram nobis. After hearing the evidence offered by the petitioner and the State, the trial court denied the writ and dismissed the petition; Woodruff appealed. We affirm.

The judgment sought to be vacated was entered before the decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1963). The question for our decision is whether, under all the circumstances, the trial judge was justified in finding that petitioner was not denied counsel in violation of the guarantees afforded…