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BRIGHT v. STATE

51681.

137 Ga. App. 404 (1976)

224 S.E.2d 71

BRIGHT v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Silver, Zevin, Sewell & Turner, Murray M. Silver, for appellant.

Richard E. Allen, District Attorney, Stephen E. Curry, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

DEEN, Presiding Judge.

1. The defendant's first enumeration of error goes to the competency of his retained defense counsel. "The right to effective counsel means counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance, not errorless counsel and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight. Pitts v. Glass, 231 Ga. 638 (203 S.E.2d 515

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