Essex v. State

On Rehearing

CATES, Judge.

On rehearing Essex asks the meaning our cryptic “Affirmed (No Op.),” pronounced August 19, 1969 on his coram nobis appeal. “Affirm,” according to Black’s Law Dictionary, means:

“In the practice of appellate courts, to affirm a judgment, decree, or order, is to declare that it is valid and right, and must stand as rendered below; to ratify and reassert it; to concur in its correctness and confirm its efficacy. Boner v. Fall River County Bank, 25 Wyo. 260, 168 P. 726, 727.”

We affirmed the judgment of the Marengo Circuit Court because of Supreme Court Rule 50, which reads: