HILL, Justice.
Petitioner filed his writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County on July 1, 1974, attacking a life sentence for murder which he received in Fulton Superior Court in 1957 after a plea of guilty. He alleged that this sentence was illegal because there had been a substantial denial of his First (freedom of speech in court), Fifth (trial by jury, sic), Sixth (speedy and public trial by impartial jury), Eighth (bail), and Fourteenth (due...
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