Adams v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery and received a life sentence. He appealed and the conviction was affirmed in Adams v. State, 279 Ala. 608, 188 So.2d 914, July, 1966. On August 9, 1966, he filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Mobile County. The trial court granted the State’s motion to dismiss the petition and this appeal followed.

The motion of the State to dismiss was based upon the fact that the court’s own records showed that some of the allegations were not correct and that the petition did “not raise any new points or…