Legal Opinion
Smith v. Hopper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 18, 1977No. 32635PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Justice.
John Eldon Smith is under a sentence of death based upon his convictions of two shotgun murders for profit. See Smith v. State, 236 Ga. 12 (222 SE2d 308) (1976). He appeals the Tattnall Superior Court’s denial of habeas corpus relief and dissolution of a stay of execution ordered after an evidentiary hearing, enumerating as error rulings of the habeas court that found no basis for granting the writ in the exclusion of prospective jurors and the introduction into evidence of a letter.
After petitioner’s convictions for the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ronald Atkins and the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Agnello v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Oregon v. HassSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by30 opinions
- John Eldon Smith, or Anthony Isalldo MacHetti v. Charles Balkcom, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Collier v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1979
- Corn v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1977
- Boatright v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1989
- James Lee Spencer v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1986
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