Smith v. State

ON MOTION TO QUASH

■, This matter is before the court on a 'motion of the state to quash the appeal of William Francis Smith, .defendant, from an order denying post-conviction relief.

The defendant.was convicted of robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. His petition for post-conviction . relief alleges that he was convicted upon the testimony of a witness who later admitted that he committed perjury at said trial. The record on appeal does not contain a transcript of the original trial.

At the post-conviction hearing the prosecutor who handled the case testified that, if the testimony of…