Justice v. State Board of Pardons & Paroles

Hill, Justice.

This suit filed in Fulton Superior Court was labeled as a petition for writ of habeas corpus and named R. C. Wright, Warden, Fulton County Correctional Institution, as respondent. The petition alleged that petitioner is being held by respondent under a 1964 life sentence for murder, that he was granted parole in 1971 but that it was revoked after nine months, that he was denied parole in 1973 and 1974 due to his alcohol problem and his alleged lack of participation in institutional self-improvement programs among other reasons, that he is thereby being denied due process of law…