Abraham v. State

This is an appeal from an order and judgment denying relief on appellants’ petition for writ of error coram nobis. The appellants, who are negroes, were jointly charged by affidavit in the Criminal Court of Lake County with the offenses of robbery, and the infliction of a physical injury with a deadly weapon in the commission of a robbery, alleged to have been committed on the 31st day of December, 1945. Abraham was arrested that night or early morning in Gary, and the other three appellants were arrested in Chicago within a day or so, and upon waiving extradition were brought to the City…