Miller v. Reed

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

SUGG, Justice, for the Court:

Petitioner filed a petition for writ of mandamus alleging that his petition for a writ of error coram nobis filed March 4, 1976, in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, had not been heard by that court. Petitioner named the Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary as respondent.

Petitioner was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County. His appeal was dismissed because he was a fugitive from justice when his case…