ECHOLS v. THOMAS

No. S95Q0082.

458 S.E.2d 100 (1995)

265 Ga. 474

ECHOLS v. THOMAS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied June 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jill A. Pryor, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for Curtis Echols.

Susan V. Boleyn, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Paula K. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael J. Bowers, Atty. Gen., Atlanta, for A.G. Thomas.


FLETCHER, Justice.

The trial court sentenced Curtis L. Echols, Jr., to life imprisonment after he pled guilty to armed robbery. Echols filed a petition for habeas corpus contending that the state's general sentencing statute did not authorize a life sentence for armed robbery. Both state and federal habeas courts denied his petition. In certifying its state-law question to this court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals requested that we address whether the trial...

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