45 N.E.2d 203 | Ind. | 1942
Lead Opinion
These two original actions were filed by the same Clyde Jones whose petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed as an original action in this court was denied in Jones v. Dowd, Warden
(1941),
In 27,745 he asks this court to mandate the respondent to receive and file relator's application for a writ of habeas corpus and to act thereon. As an exhibit to his 1, 2. petition he attaches a copy of the application for a writ of habeas corpus which he says the respondent judge did not permit to be filed in the LaPorte Superior Court. This application contains *647
substantially the same allegations, with greater degree of particularity, that were contained in the petition filed in cause No. 27,635 and denied in Jones v. Dowd, Warden, supra. We said in that case that petitioner was seeking to use a writ ofhabeas corpus as a method of review for error of law in the trial in which he was convicted. We added: "Procedure and methods of correcting error of law by appeal are provided by statute, and neither courts of general jurisdiction nor this court can review the proceedings of a court of general jurisdiction for error byhabeas corpus proceedings." Since it appears from the exhibit attached to his petition that the LaPorte Superior Court had no jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed therein, it follows that petitioner suffered no harm by the refusal of the judge of that court to permit the application to be filed. The petition for writ of mandate in 27,745 is therefore denied. See also State exrel. O'Leary v. Smith, Judge (1941),
In 27,783 relator asks that we mandate the judge of the Boone Circuit Court to set a date for a hearing on relator's motion for the appointment of counsel to prosecute a petition for a 3, 4. writ of error coram nobis now pending in said court and to set a date for a trial of said petition. We are informed that the Honorable Ernest R. Stewart, Judge of the Boone Circuit Court, has set for hearing on the 6th day of January, 1943, the petition for writ of error coram nobis and has so advised relator. It was held in State ex rel. Cutsinger v.Spencer, Judge (1941),
Addendum
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
Relator in a petition for rehearing says that we should have mandated respondent to assign relator counsel for the prosecution of his petition for writ of error coram nobis either 5. pursuant to constitutional authority or § 2-211, Burns' 1933, § 26, Baldwin's 1934. We held in the original opinion that there is no constitutional requirement for appointment of counsel at public expense. The statute referred to is a part of the Civil Procedure Act of 1881. We need not decide herein whether or not the statute is applicable to coram nobis
proceedings. It rightly has been held by this court in Hoey v.McCarthy (1890),
Petition for rehearing denied.
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