Cruse v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Fourteen-year-old John Anthony Cruse, the appellant, was indicted and convicted for the murder of Betty Tait. Sentence was life imprisonment. That conviction was affirmed by this Court without a published opinion in July of 1982. In April of 1983, Cruse, through counsel, filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis contending that his appointed counsel were ineffective both at trial and on appeal.

I

Initially, Cruse argues that trial counsel was ineffective because he did not appeal from the juvenile court’s order transferring the case to circuit court for criminal…