State v. Sawyer

On September 17, 1954, the appellant was

convicted of the crime of second-degree burglary and sentenced to serve a term in the penitentiary. At the same time the suspension of a sentence formerly imposed upon him for a previous crime was revoked, and the court ordered that the two sentences run concurrently.

In July 1957, the appellant filed an application for a writ of error coram nobis. Thereafter, he engaged an attorney who filed for him an application for a writ of habeas corpus. The two petitions were heard together on October 17, 1957, the issues raised being the same. Both were denied.

It…