Brown v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Lake Criminal Court. These proceedings were taken pursuant to Rule 2-40 of the Indiana Supreme Court as amended in 1952 and prior to the amendment of 1963 which abolished writs of error coram nobis. The rule in 1960, when these proceedings started, read in part as follows:

“An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court from a judgment granting or denying a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The sufficiency of the pleadings and of the evidence to entitle the petitioner to a vacation of the judgment will…