Mack Merrill Rivenburgh, Jr. was convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation and pursuant to the mandatory provisions of the applicable Utah statute was sentenced to be executed for the offense. U.C.A.1953, 76-30-4. The judgment of conviction was affirmed on appeal to the Supreme Court of Utah, State v. Rivenburgh,
On December 27, 1961, Rivenburgh filed in the United States District Court for the District of Utah a petition for writ of coram nobis. This petition, after setting out the bald conclusion of the existence of federal jurisdiction, alleged that since Rivenburgh’s trial and conviction the medical profession had obtained important knowledge of the vicious propensities of amphetamine, a drug claimed to have been taken in great quantities by Rivenburgh prior to the commission of his crime. 1 The trial court denied the petition after “having given consideration to the substance of the petitioner’s Petition under all possible theories of Federal jurisdiction, including but not limited to Habeas Corpus, * * A certificate of probable cause within the purview of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2253 was refused by both the trial judge and a judge of this court and petitioner makes no claim to a right to review of his pleading as a basis for habeas corpus.
Coram nobis is a remedy recognized in some state judicial systems and as such may premise an ultimate review of state action by way of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, Hamilton v. Alabama,
The motion to dismiss the appeal is granted and the appeal is dismissed.
Notes
. The influence of this drug upon Riven-burgh’s physical and mental condition was the basis of Rivenburgh’s defense at trial. See State v. Rivenburgh,
