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JOHNSON v. CALDWELL

27006.

228 Ga. 776 (1972)

187 S.E.2d 844

JOHNSON v. CALDWELL.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 9, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. B. King, Elliott H. Holden, for appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, W. Hensell Harris, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.

GRICE, Justice.

This review is occasioned by the denial of a petition seeking the writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner Johnny B. Johnson filed in the Superior Court of Tattnall County his petition against the respondent E. R. Caldwell, Warden of the Georgia State Prison, asserting that his detention was illegal for specified reasons. The petitioner had been indicted by the grand jury of Worth County for the murder of a police...

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