Ex Parte Gammon

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an application to this Court for authority to file in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. Petitioner was convicted in said court of murder in the second degree and his punishment’ fixed at forty-five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The judgment of conviction and sentence were affirmed in this Court. Gammon v. State, ante, p. 109, 50 So.2d 273.

The brief filed in this Court on behalf of petitioner predicates his right to a writ of error coram nobis on fraud practiced on the trial by R. A. McMurdo, a detective for the…