Rickard v. State

CATES, Judge.

Appeal from denial of coram nobis. In the circuit court the State’s motion to dismiss was granted under Supreme Court Rule 50 which provides in part:

“ * * * and the sentencing court shall not be required to entertain a second or successive petition for similar relief on behalf of the same prisoner. A successive petition on different grounds will not be entertained unless good cause is shown why the new ground or grounds were not known or could not have been reasonably ascertained when the first petition was heard.”

Originally Rickard claims he was indicted for robbery and…