Carraway v. State

The appellant was heretofore convicted of rape and sentenced to death, and the judgment of conviction was affirmed. 137 So. 325. After the affirmance of the case, a petition for a writ of coram nobis was sued out before the judge in vacation, and the judge declined to grant it. An appeal from the refusal of the judge to grant this writ was prosecuted' here which appeal was dismissed on the ground that no appeal lay from the refusal of the judge to grant the writ in vacation. This is reported in 163 Miss. 639, 141 So. 342. Thereafter, the present motion for a new trial was made in the circuit…