Shakur v. State

Bowles, Justice.

Appellant is presently serving a twenty-year sentence in Tennessee following his conviction there for the offense of armed robbery. This appeal was taken from the denial of appellant’s pro se post-conviction writ of habeas corpus filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia.

Appellant was indicted in Fulton County, Georgia in 1967 for the offense of robbery and assault with intent to murder. Prior to his conviction in Georgia on these charges, the appellant spent approximately twenty-three months in Pennsylvania prisons under force of a Georgia detainer warrant. In May…