William Johnson

“ It cannot be questioned, that the appropriate use of the writ of error coram vobis is, to enable a court to correct its own errors-those errors which precede the rendition of judgment. In practice, the same end is now generally attained by motion ”

“ The court there express themselves thus: 'There is peculiar reason in this case, where the cause has been protracted, and the plaintiff kept out of possession beyond the term laid in the declaration, by the excessive delays practised by the opposite party. But the course of this court has not been in favor of the idea, that a writ of error will lie to the opinion of a circuit court, granting or refusing a motion like this. ”

“ Because, although the writ of error was returnable to January term 1832, of this court, the record was not filed until June 1832, the term of January 1832, having thus intervened. 2. Because the proceedings of the circuit court, on the writ of error coram vobis, were not of such a nature as to admit of revision in this court; it being no more than a different form or mode of exercising the power the circuit court had over its acts, and therefore, subject to the rules which this court have established against revising the interlocutory acts or orders of inferior courts. ”