State Ex Rel. Tonan v. Bottorff, Judge
This text of 36 N.E.2d 766 (State Ex Rel. Tonan v. Bottorff, Judge) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Indiana Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The relator alleges that he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment upon a conviction of kidnapping; that he filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Clark Circuit Court, in which he was convicted, but that the judge of said court has refused to act upon his petition. In a verified return it appears that, while a petition was filed, there has never been a request that it be assigned for trial.
It is a common practice in many of our courts of general jurisdiction that causes are not assigned for trial until a request for an assignment is made, and, under such circumstances, it cannot be said that the court has refused a trial. This court will not mandate the trial court to perform some duty which it has not been requested to perform.
Petition for writ of mandate denied.
NOTE.—Reported in 36 N. E. (2d) 766.
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