Chesser v. State

The plaintiff in error filed a petition in this Court praying for an order to be directed to the Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida authorizing such judge to entertain an application for a writ of error Coram Nobis, the judgment in the cause having been affirmed by this court.

The petition is based on the allegation that a certain juror who qualified and was accepted as one of the panel to try the cause wherein the plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the first degree had, prior to the time of the trial, expressed an opinion adverse to the accused, which fact, at the time…