Googe v. State

Nichols, Chief Justice.

The appellant was convicted of murder in Chatham County Superior Court in 1971 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellant later filed a petition for habeas corpus alleging denial of the right to appeal. The habeas court then ordered that an out-of-time appeal be granted.

The record shows that at around 5:30 p.m., February 23, 1970, the nearly nude body of a man with fatal head injuries was found in a rural area of Chatham County. About six weeks later the appellant’s parents, who lived in Florida, called the local police and told them that their son had told them he…