CAIL v. GRIFFIN

24705.

224 Ga. 431 (1968)

162 S.E.2d 356

CAIL v. GRIFFIN, Sheriff.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 20, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel E. Drew, Jr., Kravitch & Hendrix, for appellant.

Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., Solicitor General, Robert E. Barker, Andrew J. Ryan, III, for appellee.


UNDERCOFLER, Justice.

Raymond Cail filed a petition for habeas corpus against Carl A. Griffin, Sheriff of Chatham County, Georgia, alleging that he is illegally detained under a sentence for voluntary manslaughter because the jury which convicted him was improperly and unlawfully impaneled. He avers that an alternate juror was selected to sit with the jury and hear the evidence in the case; that during the course of the trial, one of the regular jurors became ill...

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