Cail v. Griffin

Undercofler, Justice.

Raymond Cail filed a petition for habeas corpus against Carl A. Griffin, Sheriff of Chatham County, Georgia, alleging that he is illegally detained under a sentence for voluntary manslaughter because the jury which convicted him was improperly and unlawfully impaneled. He avers that an alternate juror was selected to sit with the jury and hear the evidence in the case; that during the course of the trial, one of the regular jurors became ill and the alternate juror was substituted in his place; that the authority for the use and selection of alternate jurors in criminal…