ECHOLS v. STATE

1 Div. 207.

164 So.2d 486 (1964)

Sam ECHOLS v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Echols, pro se.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and Peter M. Lind, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment denying a petition for writ of error coram nobis after a hearing in the Circuit Court of Washington County.

Petitioner was indicted for murder in the first degree, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary on May 13, 1958.

On May 6, 1963, petitioner filed his petition for writ of error coram nobis alleging the following grounds:

1. He had discovered...

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