Tillis v. State

Appellant filed a pro se petition for writ of error coram nobis seeking to overturn his conviction on a charge of burglary committed in 1971 on a guilty plea. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for seventeen and one-half years on December 9, 1974. He did not take a direct appeal to this Court from that conviction and sentence.

In July, 1973, petitioner was convicted of the crime of rape and the jury fixed his punishment at fifty-six years in the penitentiary. He appealed this rape conviction, and the judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court on June 20, 1974.Tillis v. State,…