Carraway v. State

The appellant was convicted of rape, and sentenced to be hung-. On appeal to this court the judgment of conviction was affirmed, and the sentence ordered to be executed on Friday, January 8, 1932, 137 So. 325. On that day, January 8th, a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, and a supersedeas of the judgment of conviction, were filed with the circuit judge, alleging, in substance, as ground therefor, that the appellant’s de: fense at the trial was an alibi, which he could have established by several witnesses who had been subpoenaed, but who failed to- appear at the trial for fear of mob…