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YOO KUN WHA v. SHERIFF OF FULTON COUNTY, STATE OF GA.

No. 30112 Summary Calendar.

436 F.2d 966 (1970)

YOO KUN WHA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. SHERIFF OF FULTON COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yoo Kun Wha, pro se.

Lewis R. Slaton, Sol. Gen., Atlanta Judicial Circuit, for appellee; Tony H. Hight, Asst. Dist. Atty., Atlanta Judicial Circuit, of counsel.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN, and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Yoo Kun Wha is serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Florida. In 1963 officials of Fulton County, Georgia, lodged a detainer with the Florida prison officials charging Yoo Kun Wha with a capital offense under the Georgia Code, committed in 1962, and requesting that the prisoner be turned over to them upon release from Florida's custody.

In September 1965 the defendant wrote to Fulton County judicial officers demanding a speedy trial. This...

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