State v. Armstrong

Citations

• 41 Wash. 601
• 84 P. 584
• 1906 Wash. LEXIS 1017

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Error Coram Nobis — Petition — Sufficiency. An application for a writ of comm nobis is insufficient where the writ is sought to set aside a conviction of murder because of the commission of perjury of a juror upon his voir dire, not discovered until after the decision of the case on appeal, where the petition was not verified by the applicant, nor supported by affidavits; since the qualifications of the juror had been adjudicated, and the writ cannot be employed to set aside verdicts on account of perjury.</p>