People v. Bofill

An indictment for murder in the first degree (felony murder) found by the Grand Jury in 1950 against defendant and others, was thereafter reduced to murder in the second degree as to this defendant when in 1951 he made a confession in open court as his part of a compromise.

Now he comes into court through the medium of this coram nobis motion and asks that the judgment of conviction be nullified because —

1. The court had no right to accept the plea of second degree murder, a crime which he had not committed and for which he had not been indicted.

2. The District Attorney used “ Psychological…