Legal Opinion

Graham v. Cavender

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 10, 1984No. 40769PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

Joe D. Graham, Jr., an inmate of the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville, filed with this court a pro se petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking to invoke the original jurisdiction of this court to require respondents David L. Cavender and James E. Findley, Judges of the Superior Court of Tattnall County, Atlantic Judicial Circuit, and respondent Billie K. Rewis, the clerk of said court, to take certain actions in connection with the petitioner’s civil case pending in Tattnall Superior Court.

Specifically,, he alleges that the respondents had refused to compel the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Brown v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983
  2. Haynes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1982
  3. Shreve v. PendletonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
  4. Haynes v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1981
  5. Chancey v. EllisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1983

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