STEWART v. RICKETTS

Civ. A. No. 76-14-ALB.

451 F.Supp. 911 (1978)

Donald Ray STEWART, Petitioner, v. James G. RICKETTS, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, Respondent.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Albany Division.

June 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Ray Stewart, pro se.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., State of Georgia, B. Dean Grindle, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.


RULING ON WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

OWENS, District Judge.

The petitioner, Donald Ray Stewart, seeks habeas corpus relief on the grounds that the grand jury which indicted him and the petit jury which convicted him were discriminatorily composed. Stewart, a black man, was convicted in 1971 of raping a white woman and was sentenced by the Dougherty County Superior Court to ten years imprisonment. During his trial he did not object to the composition of either...

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