GRIFFITH v. JONES

Civ. A. No. 11309.

283 F.Supp. 794 (1967)

Clark GRIFFITH v. Ralph JONES, Sheriff of Walker County.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

December 19, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bobby Lee Cook, Cook & Palmour, Summerville, Ga., for petitioner.

Earl B. Self, Summerville, Ga., for respondent.


ORDER

EDENFIELD, District Judge.

Petitioner has been convicted in a Georgia state court of the crime of burglary. The only substantial evidence against him proffered by the State at his trial was a confession and some articles which, according to the confession, had come from one of the burglarized stores. But for the confession, neither the culprit nor the articles could have been identified.

Defendant was initially arrested on March 11, 1963 in...

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