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DEYTON v. WANZER

32875.

240 Ga. 509 (1978)

241 S.E.2d 228

DEYTON v. WANZER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 4, 1978.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, James W. Bradley, Assistant District Attorney, for appellant.

Daniel F. Byrne, for appellee.

UNDERCOFLER, Presiding Justice.

Robert A. Deyton, Sheriff of Clayton County, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court granting petitioner Terry Lee Wanzer's application for habeas corpus relief. Wanzer was convicted in 1974 on two counts of rape and two counts of aggravated sodomy and received three life sentences and one twenty-year term.

On habeas, Wanzer urges lack of jurisdiction in the Clayton Superior Court to try his case because the crimes had...

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