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BALKCOM v. TOWNSEND

22258.

219 Ga. 708 (1964)

135 S.E.2d 399

BALKCOM, Warden v. TOWNSEND.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided February 18, 1964.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Howard P. Wallace, Benjamin L. Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnson, Assistant Attorneys General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff in error.

Roberts & Thornton, E. Mullins Whisnant, Troy W. Townsend, pro se, contra.

HEAD, Presiding Justice.

Troy W. Townsend filed his petition for habeas corpus against R. P. Balkcom, Warden. The petitioner alleged that he had been denied due process of law under the State and Federal Constitutions in that he had been denied counsel at the time he was sentenced in the Superior Court of Muscogee County in June, 1960. At the conclusion of the hearing the trial judge ordered that the respondent deliver the petitioner to the authorities of Muscogee...

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