WRIGHT v. SMITH

25835.

226 Ga. 527 (1970)

175 S.E.2d 867

WRIGHT v. SMITH, Warden.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 25, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie Wright, pro se.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Marion O. Gordon, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.


NICHOLS, Justice.

Willie Wright filed a petition for habeas corpus in which he alleged that the grand jury which indicted him in 1943 was illegally constituted. He pleaded guilty to three indictments charging him with burglary and received concurrent twenty-year sentences. Thereafter he escaped in 1947 and was not returned to custody until 1967. The trial court remanded the prisoner to custody and it is from such adverse judgment that he appeals. Held:

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