Court Opinion

ID: 9744606
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:09:52.42764+00
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*372Dissenting Opinion
Jackson, J.
The record in this case discloses that the Judge of the Miami Circuit Court swore the prosecuting witness, Harold E. Flinn, to the affidavit charging the appellant with the crime of which he was subsequently convicted by the same Judge. Thereafter, on the 20th day of May, 1955, the Judge sentenced appellant to prison for life.
As pointed out in the majority opinion the appellant does not state by whom, under what circumstances or upon what charges he was arrested in the State of Michigan. He does, by verified petition, aver that he was arrested in the State of Michigan on the 30th day of April, 1955. The record discloses that the bench warrant on which appellant was arrested was issued on May 4, 1955. In that connection, and with reference to appellant’s contention that “uncontradicted statements of fact in behalf of the petitioners will be taken as true,” Abraham v. State (1950), 228 Ind. 179, 181, 91 N. E. 2d 358, the State in its brief at pages 11 and 12 says in part “ [i] t is to be noted that, although in the face of Appellant’s uncontradicted verified statement that he was arrested in Michigan on April 30, 1955 the record is silent as to any arrest of Appellant under a warrant prior to May 4, 1955; however, such silence does not support Appellant’s conclusion of law that he was thereby illegally detained. ...”
The majority opinion herein relies heavily on the case of Schmittler v. State (1950), 228 Ind. 450, 93 N. E. 2d 184, in affirming the judgment of the trial court in the matter of this appeal. It is here pointed out that there were two vigorous dissents to that opinion by able members of this court, the disssenting *373opinions bearing directly on the questions here in issue and being supported by ample authority. We further point out that the Schmittler case was in large part overruled by the case of State v. Lindsey; State v. Carroll (1952), 231 Ind. 126, 106 N. E. 2d 230.
The judgment of the trial court should be reversed, with instructions to grant the petition for writ of error coram nobis and to permit appellant to withdraw his plea of guilty.