Legal Opinion
Thacker v. South Carolina
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided September 20, 1977No. Civ. A. 77-1010PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BLATT, District Judge.
The petitioner is serving a sentence in North Carolina which commenced after he escaped from the South Carolina Department of Corrections in 1968. He was committed to the Department by the Court of General Sessions for Newberry County, the Honorable J. B. Ness, Presiding Judge, after he was found guilty of armed robbery on September 21, 1967. For an offense carrying a maximum sentence of twenty-five years, Judge Ness sentenced the petitioner to twenty-one years. No direct appeal was taken.
A prior petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the petitioner was dismissed…
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