DeFrancis v. Manning

Undercofler, Chief Justice.

DeFrancis, as superintendent of the men’s unit of the Middle Georgia Correction'al Institution, appeals from the grant of habeas corpus relief to Manning who was convicted of burglary and sentenced on April 23,1974, to 15 years in prison. The sentence later was commuted to 14 years.

The facts are not in dispute. Appellant’s single enumeration contends the trial court erred in holding that the appellee’s right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment had been violated by his conviction for burglary under Code Ann. § 26-1601 (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1287).

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