Legal Opinion
Thornton v. Stynchcombe
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided February 12, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 14427PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER OF COURT
MOYE, District Judge.
Thornton has filed his petition for habeas corpus, in which he attacks the charge on alibi given in his trial as denying him his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Thornton was convicted of armed robbery in the Fulton Superior *255Court on November 20, 1969, and is serving a life sentence imposed thereon. The alibi charge1 he attacks was given to the jury in this trial. It is his contention that this charge deprived him of the presumption of innocence.2
He filed an appeal from his conviction, and while that appeal was pending, filed a petition for habeas…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Kaufman v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Ronald Maurice Stump v. John Bennett, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison, IowaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Johnson v. BennettSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Parham v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1969
- Thornton v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Ferguson v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1971
- State v. KubicekCourt of Appeals of Washington · 1971
- Rogers v. RedmanDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1978