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COATES v. BALKCOM

21103.

216 Ga. 564 (1961)

118 S.E.2d 376

COATES v. BALKCOM.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 9, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Venable, Essley Burdine, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Earl L. Hickman, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., contra.

GRICE, Justice.

Paul E. Coates (plaintiff in error) filed his petition for habeas corpus against R. P. Balkcom, Jr., Warden of Tatnall Prison (defendant in error), in the City Court of Reidsville, Georgia.

The allegations of his petition, material and necessary to this statement, follow. He alleged that on June 11, 1959, he was found guilty of murder, with a recommendation of mercy, by a jury in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia, and was sentenced...

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