Botts v. State

210 So.2d 777 (1968)

Aubrey W. BOTTS

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 44882.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 27, 1968.

Kepper & Kepper, Hattiesburg, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by Guy N. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

RODGERS, Justice:

Aubrey W. Botts, the appellant, filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Forrest County on February 23, 1967. He alleged in his petition that he was denied certain constitutional rights in the trial in which he was convicted and sentenced to the state penitentiary on July 19, 1961.

The petitioner alleged…