State v. Williams

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of coram nobis, whereby the petitioner sought to have the trial court set aside and hold for naught a judgment previously entered by that court convicting petitioner of the crime of murder in the first degree and sentencing him to life imprisonment.

The facts as shown by the record are the following: On October 10,1941, an information was filed by the prosecuting attorney for Snohomish county charging appellant, Lester G. Williams, in count No. 1, with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed on…