MENDENHALL v. HOPPER

No. CV476-335.

453 F.Supp. 977 (1978)

Bobby Wayne MENDENHALL, Petitioner v. Joe S. HOPPER, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Respondent.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

May 9, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. M. Garland, Atlanta, Ga. (Garland, Nuckolls, Kadish, Cook & Weisensee, P. C.), Atlanta, Ga., Gerald Alch, Boston, Mass., for petitioner.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Richard L. Chambers, John C. Walden, John W. Dunsmore, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.


ORDER

LAWRENCE, District Judge.

Petitioner is an inmate at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. He filed a petition in this Court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on December 20, 1976. Mr. Mendenhall entered a guilty plea on April 24, 1973, in the Superior Court of DeKalb County to two counts of murder in the first degree and one count of aggravated assault. He was sentenced by Judge Clyde Henley to life imprisonment on each murder...

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