JONES v. STATE OF GEORGIA

No. 72-3659 Summary Calendar.

475 F.2d 1141 (1973)

Larry JONES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF GEORGIA et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Bonner, Decatur, Ga., (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Harold N. Hill, Jr., Courtney Wilder Stanton, David L. G. King, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondents-appellees.

Before BELL, GODBOLD and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Court-appointed counsel for appellant, a Georgia state prisoner habeas applicant, has asserted one principal error on this appeal. In addition, deeming it to be his duty in a habeas case, he has conscientiously catalogued other possible errors for the consideration of the court.

The principal assignment of error, that the state trial court erred in the charge to the jury on voluntary manslaughter (called a due process violation), is, in the context...

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