Sarah Louise Hearn v. Elton Floyd James, Warden, Georgia Women's Correctional Institution
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
Sarah Louise Hearn appeals from the district court’s denial of her petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
Petitioner was indicted for murder by a Muscogee County, Georgia, grand jury in February 1977. Following a jury trial, she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on April 29, 1977, and received a ten-year sentence. On direct appeal, petitioner’s conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Georgia Court of Appeals. Hearn v. State, 145 Ga.App. 469, 243 S.E.2d 728 (1978). Petitioner thereafter filed an application for writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of…
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