Messelt v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant's petition for writ of error coram nobis.

In 1975 appellant was convicted in each of three separate cases of a violation of the Alabama Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Code 1940, 1971 Cumulative Pocket Part, Tit. 22, § 258. He was sentenced to a total of twenty-seven years imprisonment in the three cases.

His retained counsel promptly gave notice of an appeal in each case. Over a course of several months, extensions were granted for the completion of the transcript of the proceedings in each case, which extended until February 21, 1976. On…