RIGGS v. STATE

No. 29,372.

235 Ind. 499 (1956)

135 N.E.2d 247

RIGGS v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed June 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Cooper, Public Defender, and Robert S. Baker, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Owen S. Boling, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.


ARTERBURN, J.

This is an appeal by the appellant, Hiram Riggs, from a judgment denying a writ of error coram nobis. The State of Indiana did not file any answer or pleading to appellant's position. The appellant claims that his constitutional rights were violated upon a conviction of a criminal offense of rape by virtue of the fact that he was not represented by competent counsel, and was denied a public trial by jury on the merits and that the state's evidence...

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