Creech v. Commonwealth

HOGG, Judge.

Appellant, petitioner below, is a prisoner in the Kentucky State Reformatory, serving a sentence of ten years for robbery committed in Campbell County, Kentucky. He did not appeal from his conviction but, months afterwards, labeling his petition a writ of error coram nobis, he, pro se, sought in the Campbell Circuit Court discharge from the reformatory and a new trial. Upon hearing, his petition was dismissed and he appeals.

He urges that the judgment should be reversed because: (1) Newly discovered evidence had become available which establishes his alibi of not being present when…