Legal Opinion
Carver v. Wharton
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided January 26, 1982No. Civ. A. No. CV 581-29PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ALAIMO, Chief Judge.
Petitioner is an inmate at the Middle Georgia Correctional Institution in Hard-wick, Georgia. He filed a petition in this Court for a Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on May 20, 1981.
Petitioner received a twelve-month sentence for the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol on September 13, 1976, after he pled guilty to the charge before Judge Benjamin Smith of the State Court of Ware County. Since D.U.I. is a misdemeanor offense, these state court proceedings were not transcribed. See Ga.Code Ann. § 27-2401 (transcript only required in…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by2 opinions
- People v. NydamMichigan Court of Appeals · 1987
- Reid v. GreenDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1982