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PIPPIN v. SHEFFIELD

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220 Ga. 179 (1964)

137 S.E.2d 627

PIPPIN, Warden v. SHEFFIELD.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 10, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Albert Sidney Johnson, Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for plaintiff in error.

C. C. Sheffield, pro se.

GRICE, Justice.

We review here a judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging the prisoner from the custody of the warden. The prisoner, C. C. Sheffield, filed his petition in the Superior Court of Jefferson County against W. B. Pippin, warden of the Jefferson Prison Branch, alleging that he was being illegally detained by the warden in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution and Art. I, Sec. I, Par. V of the State Constitution, in...

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