Commonwealth v. Morrison

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Appellant was convicted of the crime of sodomy on September 16, 1944. An appeal was taken to this court and the convictions (on two indictments) were affirmed in an opinion by Judge Reno. (Com. v. Morrison, 157 Pa. Superior Ct. 366, 43 A. 2d 400.) A petition for an appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed. On September 13, 1945, before the Supreme Court had acted on the petition, appellant filed a petition in the court below for a writ of error coram nobis. Attached to the petition was the statement of one Mrs. Alice Smith, a member of the jury which tried Morrison.…