UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

No. 15, Docket 20985.

171 F.2d 432 (1948)

UNITED STATES ex rel. STEELE v. JACKSON.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

November 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Beach, of New York City, for appellant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen., Wendell P. Brown, Sol. Gen., of Albany, N. Y., and Louis Winer, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Ever since Lyons v. Goldstein1 was decided, it has been possible in the courts of New York to obtain the relief here demanded by what is in effect a writ, coram nobis.2 The relator did apply in the state court for such a writ; and one of the grounds was that the warden of the prison connived at the perjury of those witnesses on whose testimony he was convicted, and indeed that the warden had even...

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