WHITE v. KELSO

No. S90A1563.

401 S.E.2d 733 (1991)

261 Ga. 32

WHITE v. KELSO, Warden.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

March 15, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor White, Waycross, pro se.

Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., C.A. Benjamin Woolf, Atty., State Law Dept., Atlanta, for Kelso.


CLARKE, Chief Justice.

This appeal from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus was granted to consider whether a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel is waived by petitioner if his appellate counsel, who was not his trial counsel, fails to assert it on direct appeal. We conclude that the ineffective assistance claim was waived.

Victor White was convicted of three counts of armed robbery and received...

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