Deckard v. State

The petitioner here has asked that we grant him a belated appeal. Previously, in Deckard v. State (1960), 240 Ind. 381, 166 N. E. 2d 170, petitioner sought to appeal from a conviction of the crime of reckless homicide. In that case the appeal was dismissed for the reason that there was no prompt application for a writ of certiorari to correct the record after it was pointed out that the judgment was omitted, although reference to the judgment was made in the assignment of errors and other pleadings. The law of this case was fixed by the opinion in that case.

The petitioner now applies to this…