Pitts v. State

ON REHEARING

While serving his sentence in the Lauderdale County Jail the appellant allegedly discovered that his brother, Joe Pitts, and Carrol "June Bug" Clemmons were the two masked men who robbed Mattie Turner on February 15, 1976. The appellant had been convicted of this robbery and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. His judgment of conviction was affirmed by this court without published opinion. Pitts v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 8 Div. 871 (Ms. March 29, 1977). This is an appeal from the circuit court's denial of a petition for writ of error coram nobis.

On the trial of the appellant for…