Kilgore v. State

On Rehearing after Oral Argument

CATES, Judge.

August 26, 1976, we affirmed the judgment below without opinion. See Code 1940, T. 13, § 66.

The trial judge had on March 18, 1976, denied coram nobis to review a conviction on February 18, 1974, based on a plea of guilt to statutory rape, i. e., carnal knowledge of a girl under twelve years of age. The sentence was for twenty years. Code 1940, T. 14, § 398. No appeal was taken. Coram nobis was filed November 3, 1975.

Kilgore now complains that his plea of guilt was null and void because:(1) the now deceased Sheriff of Dallas County had promised…