WOODRUFF v. STATE

No. 44078.

187 So.2d 883 (1966)

E.L. WOODRUFF v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Whitten, Jr., C. Sidney Carlton, Sumner, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

E.L. Woodruff filed his petition in circuit court for writ of error coram nobis. After hearing the evidence offered by the petitioner and the State, the trial court denied the writ and dismissed the petition; Woodruff appealed. We affirm.

The judgment sought to be vacated was entered before the decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799 (1963). The question for our...

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