People v. Harding

This is an appeal from an order denying an application for a writ of error coram nobis.

In July, 1947, the defendant pleaded guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree, being represented by the public defender. At the time judgment was pronounced it was brought out that during 1943 he had spent three months in a mental institution in Texas, and that during the intervening years he had served a term in Folsom prison. The court included in the judgment a statement which reads: “Should the adult authority deem fit, it is the recommendation of the court that the defendant be placed under…