Nelson v. Tullos

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• relief for a defendant who claims to have been convicted as a result of a deprivation of his constitutional rights is by a writ of error coram nobis
• \[H]abeas corpus has the principal function of testing the legality of a petitioner's detention prior to his conviction.\

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