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WILLIS v. SMITH

26485.

227 Ga. 589 (1971)

182 S.E.2d 94

WILLIS v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 6, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Willis, pro se.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Assistant Attorney General, W. Hansell Harris, Jr., for appellee.

GRICE, Justice.

This appeal is from the denial of the writ of habeas corpus sought by virtue of a petition filed in the Superior Court of Tattnall County by James Willis against S. Lamont Smith, as warden of the Georgia State Prison.

The petitioner claimed that his sentence of October 20, 1936, to life imprisonment for sodomy, was illegal because he was not afforded his constitutional rights. He complained that he...

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