Legal Opinion
Andrews v. Aderhold
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 12, 1946No. 15447PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hooper, Judge.
On October 3, 1945, Louise Andrews, the plaintiff -in error, filed in the City Court of Reidsville her petition for a writ of habeas corpus, naming as the respondent A. 0- Aderhold, Warden of Georgia State Prison. She alleged that he was illegally holding her husband, Sylvester Andrews) a colored man, who was under sentence of electrocution by virtue of his conviction in Bibb Superior Court under an indictment charging him with rape upon one Annie Lee Flanders, a colored woman, now deceased. It was alleged in effect that his conviction and trial were in3 violation of his…
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