POSS v. SMITH

26155.

227 Ga. 43 (1970)

178 S.E.2d 859

POSS v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided December 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hester & Hester, Frank B. Hester, for appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Marion O. Gordon, Dorothy T. Beasley, Assistant Attorneys General, B. Daniel Dubberly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


GRICE, Justice.

The appellant enumerates as error the denial of his motion to dismiss the answer and response to his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

William T. Poss filed the petition in the Superior Court of Tattnall County, Georgia, against Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State Prison, alleging that his confinement was illegal due to specified errors in the trial proceedings related primarily to matters of evidence in his trial for burglary. He was found...

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