Acoff v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Franklin Delano Acoff perfects an appeal from the denial of two petitions by the Circuit Court of Dallas County, Alabama. The petition for writ of error coram nobis, which was denied without a hearing thereon, sought to establish that the petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel by his retained attorney at the time of his original trial when he failed to challenge an unlawful search and seizure.

The second petition was one for writ of habeas corpus which sought to raise the issue that the court had imposed an unconstitutional sentence upon him because the law in…