People v. Chapman

This motion for coram nobis relief is denied.

The mass of correspondence between defendant and the court personnel, the multiple applications made heretofore, and the stenographic minutes of the court sessions, — all, in their bearing upon the question involved here, point to this just conclusion : that the ground now urged to vacate the judgment of conviction, that is, the absence of defendant’s counsel during the time when the court had given the jury further instructions pursuant to their request, criticized by defendant as a noncompliance with section 427 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,…