State v. Smith

DALTON, Judge.

On July 22, 1957, petitioner filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis a petition entitled “Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis.” The petition was denied without a hearing and petitioner appealed.

In the petition it was alleged that petitioner had theretofore on the 16th day of June, 1950, been convicted in said court of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon under the Habitual Criminal Act and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for the remainder of his natural life; and that he was presently imprisoned and held in the…