Hardwick v. Gooding

Hall, Justice.

On May 24,1974, at a hearing in Richmond County Superior Court on Hardwick’s petition for habeas corpus, his attorney requested a continuance for lack of preparedness, which request was denied, and the hearing proceeded. Hardwick, claiming unpreparedness, put up no evidence, and the court denied the relief requested and remanded him to custody. On this appeal he enumerates as error the refusal of his request for a continuance and the denial of the relief requested in the petition.

It is true, as the county attorney argues, that the petition on which the hearing was held was…