The People v. Moran

This proceeding is under section 89 of the Practice act, (Smith’s Stat. 1929, p. 2187,) which provides: “The writ of error coram nobis is hereby abolished, and all errors in fact, committed in the proceedings of any court of record, and which, by the common law, could have been corrected by said writ, may be corrected by the court in which the error was committed, upon motion in writing, made at any time within five years after the rendition of final judgment in the case, upon reasonable notice.”

Plaintiff in error was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county in June, 1917, for robbery…