Creel v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

This is a coram nobis proceeding seeking to overturn a second degree murder conviction in June of 1971. Petitioner was charged with killing his wife by shooting her with a shotgun, and his punishment was fixed by the jury at twenty (20) years in the penitentiary. At his original trial, he was represented by distinguished counsel of his own choice. He did not testify in that trial. There was no appeal from the original judgment of conviction.

A copy of the transcript of the evidence on the trial in chief and the testimony taken at the preliminary trial were introduced as exhibits…