Burns v. State

Appellant filed his verified petition for writ of error coram nobis in the Shelby Circuit Court on October 12, 1952, reciting that he was arrested on or about May 22, 1948 and imprisoned in the Shelby County Jail where he was held until June 2, 1948, when he was taken before the Judge of said court where he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of arson in the first degree; that during the time between his arrest and his plea he was neither taken before a magistrate and formally charged with an offense nor permitted the advice and assistance of counsel; and, further, that at the time he…