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FERGUSON v. BALKCOM

23735.

222 Ga. 676 (1966)

151 S.E.2d 707

FERGUSON v. BALKCOM, Warden.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 20, 1966.

Rehearing Denied November 3, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. H. Leatherwood, Sr., for appellant.

Dan Winn, Solicitor General, John T. Perren, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, G. Ernest Tidwell, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Carter A. Setliff, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

CANDLER, Presiding Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding which Billy Homer Ferguson brought in the City Court of Reidsville against R. P. Balkcom, Jr. as warden of Georgia's Tattnall County Prison. His petition alleges that he is being illegally detained by Balkcom under a sentence or death imposed upon him in Douglas County pursuant to a verdict convicting him of the murder of Luke A. Brown on July 17, 1958. The appeal is from a judgment quashing the writ and...

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