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GUNN v. BALKCOM

27031.

228 Ga. 802 (1972)

188 S.E.2d 500

GUNN v. BALKCOM.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 9, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. D. Stockton, for appellant.

Herbert B. Kimzey, District Attorney, Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, W. Hensell Harris, Jr., William F. Bartee, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.

MOBLEY, Presiding Justice.

Calvin Gunn filed a petition for habeas corpus contending that the life sentence he is serving for the crime of foeticide, for acts committed on November 22, 1969, is illegal because the crime had been abolished prior to the date of the alleged crime. The habeas corpus court found against his contention, and the appeal is from that judgment.

The Code of 1933, § 26-1103, defined the crime...

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