DWYER v. STATE


120 A.2d 276 (1956)

Paul N. DWYER, Petitioner, v. STATE of Maine.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

January 17, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verrill, Dana, Walker, Philbrick & Whitehouse, Portland, for petitioner.

Frank F. Harding, Atty. Gen., Roger A. Putnam, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Before FELLOWS, C. J., and WILLIAMSON, WEBBER, BELIVEAU, TAPLEY and CLARKE, JJ.


FELLOWS, Chief Justice.

This is a petition filed at the November term, 1955 of the Superior Court for Oxford County, asking that a writ of error coram nobis issue; that a hearing be had on the writ, and that the petitioner's plea of guilty to an indictment for murder, made at the November term, 1937, of said Superior Court, be stricken from the record. Questions of law having arisen as to whether the Court has the jurisdiction to hear such a petition, and to...

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