Opinion
No. 28,487.
Filed October 7, 1948.
1. CRIMINAL LAW — Writ of Error Coram Nobis — Statutory Requirements — Failure to Serve Attorney-General — Effect. — Service of a copy of petition for writ of error coram nobis upon the Attorney General as required by statutes was essential to the commencement of the cause of action. Burns' Stat., § 49-1937. p. 395.
2. MANDAMUS — Requisites of Petition — Copy of Pleading — Required by Rules of Court. — Where a petition for a writ of mandate to compel circuit court to hear petition for writ of error coram nobis does not contain certified copies of all pleadings, orders, and entries pertaining to the subject matter in circuit court, as required by Rule 2-35, Rules of Supreme Court, such petition would be insufficient and denied by the Supreme Court. p. 395.
Original mandamus proceeding by the State of Indiana on the relation of Solomon Patterson against the Miami Circuit Court to compel it to hear an alleged petition for writ of error coram nobis.
Petition denied.
Solomon Patterson, pro se.
The petitioner seeks an alternate writ of mandate to compel the respondent to hear an alleged petition for writ of error coram nobis filed in said court. Under the authority of 1, 2. Lester v. Grant Circuit Court (1948), ante, p. 186, 78 N.E.2d 785, and the authorities therein cited, the petition is insufficient for two reasons. There is no allegation that the petitioner ever served a copy of his petition for writ of error coram nobis upon the Attorney General as required by § 49-1937 Burns' 1933 (Supp.) (Acts 1945, ch. 3, § 1, p. 7, Acts 1947, ch. 196, § 1, p. 638), and until such service has been made he has no cause of action commenced in the Miami Circuit Court. Nor does the petition contain or have attached as exhibits "certified copies of all pleadings, orders and entries pertaining to the subject matter" in the respondent circuit court as required by Rule 2-35 of this court.
The petition is denied.
NOTE. — Reported in 81 N.E.2d 536.