Legal Opinion
Dukes v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided June 15, 1964No. 40581PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Russell, Judge.
The first special ground of the motion for a new trial complains of the violation of Code Ann. § 27-212 which requires that any person not conveyed before a person authorized to issue a warrant within 48 hours shall be released, and no imprisonment shall be legal beyond a reasonable time allowed for this purpose. What is a reasonable time is a question of fact and it may well be less than 48 hours, the statutory outer limit of reasonableness. The uncontradicted evidence here is that the defendant was arrested without a warrant at about 4:30 p.m. on the afternoon of April 8,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Reck v. PateSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- People v. HamiltonMichigan Supreme Court · 1960
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Heard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1972
- Furman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1969
- Harris v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1977
- Teal v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
- Marvin Roberts v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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