Daniel v. Whitlock

Grice, Justice.

His habeas corpus petition having been dismissed upon general demurrer, Milton Daniel appealed that ruling to this court. The petition, filed in the Superior Court of Coweta County, was against J. W. Whitlock, as warden of the public works camp of that county. The basis of petitioner’s claim of illegal detention is an order revoking the suspension of service of his original sentence. He asserts that this revocation was ordered after the original sentence had expired.

The original sentence, for the offense of abandonment of minor children, was entered on September 18, 1961, in…