West v. State

The Supreme Court denied Petitioner's petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, holding that Petitioner failed to raise a ground that was cognizable in coram nobis proceedings and failed to demonstrate that the writ should issue.Petitioner was convicted of aggravated robbery and first-degree battery and sentenced to 360 months' imprisonment. The court of appeals affirmed. In his petition for leave to reinvest jurisdiction for coram nobis proceedings, Petitioner challenged the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction. The Supreme Court denied the petition, holding that that Petitioner's claims constituted a direct attack on the judgment and were not cognizable in a coram nobis proceeding. View "West v. State" on Justia Law