Lloyd v. State

Appellant and three others, named Caine, Parnell and Hansborough, were indicted for murder in the commission of a robbery, under Acts 1941, ch. 148, §1, p. 447 (being §10-3401, Burns’ 1956 Repl.). Caine, who fired the gun which caused the death, pleaded guil ty and was separately sentenced. Parnell, Hansboroug-h and Lloyd were tried jointly by a jury and were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on November 14, 1949.

On May 5, 1959, Hon. Robert S. Baker, the Public Defender of the State of Indiana, filed on behalf of the appellant a petition for writ of error coram nobis attacking…