Hall v. Langlois

In March of 1948 the petitioner- was charged on three complaints with assault and robbery. Upon arraignment in a district court he was adjudged probably guilty and bound over to the superior court where he waived the finding and filing of grand jury indictments against him for those offenses and pleaded nolo contendere to each complaint. He was sentenced upon each plea to serve a term of 35 years, the sentences to run concurrently. About 20 years later while still serving those sentences he filed this petition for a writ of error coram nobis in which he claims that at the time he pleaded he…