Paxton v. State

DIXON, Judge.

Appeal from a denial of a writ of error coram nobis to vacate an already completed two-year sentence for stealing. The petitioner pled guilty to the stealing charge in 1964. Petitioner is now serving a life sentence on an unrelated conviction. The trial court, after evidentiary hearing, denied the writ of error coram nobis.

The appeal asserts three grounds for reversal: first, that the information charging stealing was fatally defective; second, his plea was unknowing, unintelligent, and involuntary; third, that the trial court failed to comply with Rule 25.04.

The first claim is…