Richardson v. Commonwealth

EBLEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court dismissing the appellant’s motion for a writ of error coram nobis. The appellant was convicted in 1956 of having performed an abortion on Bessie Mae Schupe. On appeal the judgment was *155affirmed (Richardson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 312 S.W.2d 470) and a petition for rehearing was overruled in due course.

The appellant supported the motion with the affidavits of Paul Garner, Harold Souders and Maxwell Allen. Bessie Mae Schupe had testified on the trial of the appellant that Paul Garner drove her to the Richardson home on…