BALKCOM v. HURST

22692.

220 Ga. 405 (1964)

139 S.E.2d 306

BALKCOM, Warden v. HURST.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Peyton Hawes, Jr., Albert Sidney Johnson, Assistant Attorneys General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for plaintiff in error.

Walter E. Hurst, pro se.


QUILLIAN, Justice.

Walter E. Hurst brought his petition for habeas corpus in the City Court of Reidsville against R. P. Balkcom, Warden of the Georgia State Prison. The petitioner contends that sentences which he was serving from three counties, Richmond, Bulloch and Johnson, were void because he had been deprived of counsel and of a commitment hearing, both in violation of his rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After...

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