Echols v. Smith

Grice, Justice.

Denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Charles L. Echols by the Superior Court of Tattnall County brought about this appeal. The petition alleges that his detention in Georgia State Prison after being tried and convicted of two counts of armed robbery in the Superior Court of Fulton County is illegal and unconstitutional for stated reasons. The respondent denied the essential parts of the petition. A hearing was held and the petitioner was remanded to the custody of the respondent warden.

In this appeal the petitioner avers that there are five issues of law.

1. The first is in…