Wallace v. Ault

Undercofler, Justice.

Edward Lee Wallace filed an application for the writ of habeas corpus in Butts Superior Court. His application asserts that he was charged with murder, tried by a jury, found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to 18 years in the penitentiary; that he was tried by an all-white jury because all the black jurors had been stricken by the State; that the jury was comprised of the friends and business associates "of the corpus delicti”; that the jury was comprised of no one who objected to capital punishment since the State had stricken them; that the judge did not…