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THORNTON v. STYNCHCOMBE

Civ. A. No. 14427.

323 F.Supp. 254 (1971)

Gary Allister THORNTON, Petitioner, v. Leroy STYNCHCOMBE, Sheriff of Fulton County, Respondent.

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

February 12, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley H. Nylen, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner.

Charles B. Merrill, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

ORDER OF COURT

MOYE, District Judge.

Thornton has filed his petition for habeas corpus, in which he attacks the charge on alibi given in his trial as denying him his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Thornton was convicted of armed robbery in the Fulton Superior Court on November 20, 1969, and is serving a life sentence imposed thereon. The alibi charge1 he attacks was...

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