Opinion

Winchester v. State

  • 45 Ala. App. 24
  • 221 So. 2d 700
  • 1969 Ala. App. LEXIS 305
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Apr 1, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Cates
On the bench
Price, Cates, Almon
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 11.8%

wherein the court recognized the allegation of lack of counsel at a probation revocation hearing in the remedy of coram nobis

How later courts described this case

  • wherein the court recognized the allegation of lack of counsel at a probation revocation hearing in the remedy of coram nobis

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

CATES, Judge

(concurring).

I think that point (2) as to lack of Counsel at the probation revocation hearing is not amenable to relief post conviction by way of coram nobis. Whether the probation statute impliedly requires counsel to constitute “a hearing” I think can be raised ordinarily only (if at all) by a direct appeal.

Hence, I consider point (2) is moot here unless Winchester were to have proved that the final revocation o'rder was the product of fraud which would have prevented that order.

I see no Federal or State constitutional question on this point. Briguglio v. N. Y. State Board of Parole, 23 N.Y.2d 669 , 295 N.Y.S.2d 924 , 243 N.E.2d 144 (Feb. 20, 1969).

Aside from this aspect of form, I agree with all that our Presiding Judge has said to judgment.

ALMON, J., concurs in result.

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