Chatom v. State

JOSEPH J. MULLINS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant, Jere Chatom, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mobile County dismissing a petition for a writ of error coram nobis seeking to set aside a judgment of conviction of the appellant for murder in the first degree and a sentence of life imprisonment without granting an evidentiary hearing on the petition and without appointing an attorney to represent the appellant in the circuit court on the petition.

The petition consumes thirty-eight pages of the transcript and consists of statements of propositions of law, some…