People v. Sparks

Appellant, with two others, was convicted in 1948 of certain counts of forgery. (Only one of the others appealed. See People v. Robinson, 102 Cal.App.2d 800 [228 P.2d 583].) On October 5, .1951, appellant, in propria persona, filed in the superior court in the original criminal proceeding a “Motion for the Records.” This requested the court to order the clerk to deliver to appellant the clerk’s and reporter’s transcripts of the proceedings at the trial, thereby “enabling petitioner to prosecute his cause in a writ of Error Coram Nobis.” Accompanying this “motion” were a memorandum of points…