Jackson v. State

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was convicted of trafficking in cocaine and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. On appeal, he contends that the trial court violated his constitutional right to compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor by refusing to issue a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum to secure the presence at trial of a material witness who was being held in a county jail in a neighboring county.

The case was tried in Fulton County. The witness in question, who had evidently been arrested with the appellant, was in the Douglas County Jail…