Beard v. State

is an appeal from an order and judgment denying appellant’s amended motion to annul and vacate a judgment entered by the trial court convicting appellant of the offense of inflicting physical injury upon Laura Lambertson with a dangerous instrument while engaged in the commission of a robbery, 1 and imposing a life sentence therefor. The motion also prayed leave to withdraw his plea of guilty to the affidavit. Although the pleading is designated as such motion, it is in fact a petition for a writ of error coram nobis and will be so considered here. Sanders v. State (1882), 85 Ind. 318. The…