Court Opinion

ID: 3421394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:48:34.532712+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:58.365570
License: Public Domain

The relator alleges that he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment upon a conviction of kidnapping; that he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Clark Circuit Court, in which he was convicted, but that the judge of said court has refused to act upon his petition. In a verified return it appears that, while a petition was filed, there has never been a request that it be assigned for trial.
It is a common practice in many of our courts of general jurisdiction that causes are not assigned for trial until a request for an assignment is made, and, under such circumstances, it cannot be said that the court has refused a trial. This court will not mandate the trial court to perform some duty which it has not been requested to perform.
Petition for writ of mandate denied.
NOTE. — Reported in 36 N.E.2d 766. *Page 28