KEARSE v. PAULK

S94A0965.

264 Ga. 509 (1994)

KEARSE v. PAULK.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 3, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Kearse, pro se.

H. Lamar Cole, District Attorney, J. David Miller, Bradford M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


CARLEY, Justice.

After appellant had been indicted for several offenses, but prior to his trial, he filed a pro se petition for habeas corpus. The habeas court dismissed appellant's petition and he appeals.

"A writ of habeas corpus looks only to the lawfulness of the present confinement. It does not deal with the lawfulness of a possible future imprisonment.... [Cit.]' [Cits.]" Mullennix v. Balkcom, 213 Ga. 490 (

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