Chandler v. Ault

Gunter, Justice.

On September 25, 1974, appellant, a state prisoner confined in Tattnall County, filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County a pro se "Petition for Writ of Mandamus” against the Commissioner of Offender Rehabilitation. The petition was poorly written and difficult to understand, but it alleged essentially that Chandler was tried and convicted of two offenses in March, 1966, in the Superior Court of Fulton County and given consecutive sentences of twenty and ten years; that he was attacking the validity of only the second sentence because it was preventing him from being…