Case Title: Edwards v. State

Citation: 150 So. 2d 710

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1963-02-28T00:00:00Z

Document:
150 So. 2d 710 (1963)
Charles EDWARDS
v.
STATE of Alabama.
7 Div. 594.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
February 28, 1963.
*711 Charles Edwards, pro se.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Ed Brogden, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
MERRILL, Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment denying an application for a writ of error coram nobis after a hearing.
The defendant was tried and convicted of the offense of first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary on April 27, 1957. No motion for a new trial was made and no appeal was taken to this court. The defendant was represented by four able attorneys on his trial.
The application for writ of error coram nobis was filed July 11, 1962, and after a motion to dismiss the application was overruled, the cause was set for hearing on October 10, and two qualified attorneys were appointed as counsel to represent defendant, one of whom had represented him at his trial. The court also ordered that defendant be brought to Columbiana on September 27, in order that he might prepare his case.
A part of the court's order denying the application reads:
There is nothing in the record before us which even slightly indicates that the judgment of the lower court was not correct.
Substantial error is not presumed, but the burden is upon the appellant to show error. Kabase v. State, 244 Ala. 182, 12 So. 2d 766; McCall v. State, 262 Ala. 414, 79 So. 2d 51; Fuller v. State, 269 Ala. 312, 113 So. 2d 153; Cook v. State, 269 Ala. 646, 115 So. 2d 101.
Affirmed.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and HARWOOD, JJ., concur.