State v. Gurecki

This is an appeal by the State from the granting of a writ of error coram nobis.

The action was instituted prior to the promulgation of Rule 2-40. The appellee was convicted of burglary in 1932 upon a plea of guilty. This conviction is attacked in the writ of error coram nobis on the ground first, that the plea of guilty was not voluntary, but coerced by beatings of a deputy sheriff. Second, that the appellee’s constitutional right to counsel was violated by the trial judge’s refusal to appoint counsel.

The record shows that appellee has had a number of involvements with the law since 1932;…