Legal Opinion
Ex parte Ellis
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided March 14, 1961No. 3 Div. 74PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRICE, Judge.
Petitioner, Homer D. Ellis, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. An appeal was taken to this court and the case was affirmed. Ellis v. State, 39 Ala.App. 325, 100 So.2d 725.
Two petitions have been filed here which purport to be in the nature of applications for the writ of error coram nobis.
The Attorney General has filed a motion to strike said petitions on the ground, among others, that they are “vague, indefinite, uncertain and unintelligible.”
The functions of the writ of error coram…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
- Stephens v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1951
- Ex Parte RelifordAlabama Court of Appeals · 1954
- Ellis v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1957
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Ex Parte RudolphSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
- Bies v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
- Swain v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
- Protective Life Ins. Co. v. AtkinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1980
- Taylor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
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