Vaughn

On this appeal from the trial court’s order denying defendant’s petition for a writ of error coram nobis defendant contends that the trial court abused its discretion in not granting him a “full hearing” at which defendant could testify and present subpoenaed witnesses and other evidence, and that since a hearing was required and he was an indigent person, the trial court committed prejudicial error in not appointing counsel to represent him.

On September 22, 1965 defendant, in propria persona, filed with the trial court a petition entitled ‘ ‘ Original Application for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis to Withdraw Plea of Guilty, Vacate Judgment, Set Aside Conviction and Enter Not Guilty Plea.” The petition alleged that defendant “was legally insane at the time of the charged offense and did not present the defense at the time of plea because he was also legally insane at that time”; that, as revealed by various enumerated hospital records, defendant “suffers and has suffered for some years with mental illness, at times amounting to temporary insanity” and “at the time of the trial defendant was under heavy sedation, and under the hypnotic effect of mental depressing [sic} drugs”; that…