BOWEN, Presiding Judge.
Fourteen-year-old John Anthony Cruse, the appellant, was indicted and convicted for the murder of Betty Tait. Sentence was life imprisonment. That conviction was affirmed by this Court without a published opinion in July of 1982. In April of 1983, Cruse, through counsel, filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis contending that his appointed counsel were ineffective both at trial and on appeal.
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