People v. Black

WOOD (W. J.), J., pro tem.

Appellant was accused by information filed by the district attorney of selling intoxicating liquor. He entered a plea of guilty on July 6, 1927, and on July 9, 1927, was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. On July 25, 1927, he filed in the superior court of Riverside County a petition for a writ of error coram nobis, in which he set forth that his plea of guilty had been entered by him “through the agency of duress, fraud and deception.” He alleged that one William Rush had been his employer at the Oasis pool-hall in the city of Blythe; that Rush had told him…