Opinion
No. 10025.
Decided March 17, 1959.
Decided March 17, 1959.
The Chief Justice of this Court has received from Vernon Dumont, an inmate of the State Prison, a letter in which he states that he is an enrolled Sioux-Assinniboine Indian convicted in the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District. He further asserts that the case of State ex rel. Bokas v. District Court, 128 Mont. 37, 270 P.2d 396, should apply to him.
The letter is in the nature of a petition for the common law writ of error coram nobis. We have previously held that such petitions should be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the county in which the judgment was rendered. State v. Hales, 124 Mont. 614, 230 P.2d 960; State ex rel. Irvine v. District Court, 125 Mont. 247, 235 P.2d 662.
It is ordered that the petition be forwarded to the Clerk of the District Court of Roosevelt County, Montana, and by him called to the attention of the presiding judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana, and that the petitioner Dumont and the Attorney General be informed by letter of such transfer.