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BALKCOM v. VICKERS

22578.

220 Ga. 345 (1964)

138 S.E.2d 868

BALKCOM v. VICKERS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 30, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Albert Sidney Johnson, Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff in error.

Sam Johnson, contra.

GRICE, Justice.

For review here is a habeas corpus judgment sustaining the petitioner's contention that he was denied the right of counsel upon his sentencing. The petitioner, Walter K. Vickers, filed a petition in the City Court of Reidsville against R. P. Balkcom, Warden of the State penitentiary, asserting that his sentence for burglary, rendered by the Superior Court of Butts County in 1959, was void for denial of such right. The warden's response controverted...

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