Hardwick v. State

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court sustaining a demurrer to a petition for a writ of error coram nobis and to vacate a judgment. Appellant had been given a three year suspended sentence in the penitentiary on a plea of guilty to an indictment which charged him with keeping and exhibiting a gaming device.

The petition alleges that appellant by reason of threats, coercion, fear and duress was forced and directed into entering a plea of guilty to the indictment; that appellant had previously entered a plea of guilty to six misdemeanor charges and was sentenced to a year on each…