Mackey v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseIn 1982, Petitioner was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The judgment was affirmed on appeal. Now before the Supreme Court was Petitioner’s pro se motion to reinvest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider a petition for writ of error coram nobis, arguing that he was insane at the time of trial and that his lack of competency “was an issue that was hidden and unknown and would have prevented rendition of the judgment had it been known at trial.” The Supreme Court denied the petition, holding that Petitioner pointed to no fact that could not have been brought out at the time of trial and that Petitioner failed to show due diligence in bringing his claim of insanity more than thirty years after the judgment was affirmed.
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