HORTON v. ZANT

Civ. A. No. 88-46-1-MAC (WDO).

687 F.Supp. 594 (1988)

Jimmy Lee HORTON, Petitioner, v. Walter ZANT, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent.

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

June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew L. Lipps, Washington, D.C., Stephen Bright, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner.

Paula K. Smith, Atlanta Ga., for respondent.


ORDER

OWENS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Jimmy Lee Horton, having been tried, convicted and sentenced to die in Bibb Superior Court in February, 1981, for the murder of Don Thompson, and having exhausted1 the remedies available in the courts of this state, petitioned this court on February 24, 1988, for a writ of habeas corpus contending that he was convicted of murder and two burglary charges and sentenced to die "in violation of...

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