Balkcom v. Roberts

Candler, Presiding Judge.

This is a habeas corpus case which Marvin Roberts brought against R. P. Balkcom, Jr., the warden of Georgia’s Reidsville Penitentiary, in which it is alleged that he is being detained under a void 20-year sentence imposed on him in 1951. The record shows: Roberts, an illiterate white man 30 years old and who had only completed the second grade in school, was indicted for rape where the indictment against him alleged that he did in White County on July 1, 1951, have carnal knowledge of a named female, under fourteen years of age, forceably and against her will, without…