YATES v. STATE

No. 43686.

189 So.2d 917 (1966)

Phillip G. YATES v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown, Alvin J. Bronstein, Richard Monk, Malcolm Farmer, III, Jackson, for appellant.

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


GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:

Phillip G. Yates was condemned to death for the murder of Jerry Gordon. While awaiting execution he filed in this Court an application for leave to file in the trial court a petition for writ of error coram nobis pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 1992.5 (1956).

The principal question for our decision is whether the application shows probable cause that Yates' plea of guilty should be set aside on the ground that an...

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