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KNIGHT v. BALKCOM

No. 22357.

363 F.2d 221 (1966)

Herman Ludson KNIGHT, Appellant, v. R. P. BALKCOM, Jr., Warden of State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Sullivan, W. Lance Smith, Savannah, Ga., for appellant.

Benjamin L. Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnson, Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before BROWN, WISDOM and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Herman Ludson Knight pleaded guilty in the Dougherty (Ga.) Superior Court to an indictment charging the capital crime of armed robbery. The court sentenced Knight to serve twenty years in the Georgia state penitentiary. He did not appeal. Knight later filed in the City Court of Reidsville, Ga., an application for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he had been denied his federally guaranteed right to assistance of counsel. The City Court denied...

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