Ex parte Anderson
| Decision Date | 13 November 1962 |
| Docket Number | 7 Div. 705 |
| Citation | 41 Ala.App. 620,147 So.2d 862 |
| Parties | Ex parte William L. ANDERSON. |
| Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
William L. Anderson, pro se.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., for the State.
Petitioner was indicted for murder in the second degree, convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years. An appeal was taken to this court on the record proper, without a transcript of the evidence, and the cause was affirmed without opinion on May 20, 1958.
Petitioner has applied here for leave to file a petition in the trial court for a writ of error coram nobis. He alleges that he was denied a continuance at his trial so that he could employ counsel for his defense and that the trial court refused to appoint a lawyer to defend him.
The Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the petition. In the motion it is alleged that the petitioner has had a transcript of the evidence at his original trial made, certified to under date of January 2, 1962, by the official court reporter and the circuit clerk, and has had a copy served upon the Attorney General.
Excerpts from the transcript of testimony show that at the February, 1958, term of the circuit court when defendant's case was called for trial the court appointed an attorney to assist him in selecting a jury. His court appointed counsel moved, at defendant's request, for a continuance on the grounds of defendant's physical inability to stand trial, for the absence of a witness, and to give defendant time to employ an attorney. Counsel stated defendant said he had no money to hire an attorney but he felt if a continuance could be granted until the August term of court he could make arangements to employ an attorney. The court said:
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The defendant was taken to the office of a physician who had treated him while he was in jail. The doctor examined him and informed the court in defendant's presence that he was physically able to stand trial. Court appointed counsel assisted in striking the jury, entered a plea of not guilty and a special plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, answered the...
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