Legal Opinion
Clark v. Smith
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 7, 1968No. 24802PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mobley, Justice.
William Patrick Clark was convicted of the offense of rape and sentenced to death, and on appeal to this court his conviction was affirmed. Clark v. State, 222 Ga. 802 (152 SE2d 692). His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Thereafter he filed a petition for habeas corpus. After a hearing, he was remanded to the custody of the warden, and he appeals from this order, enumerating fourteen alleged errors.
Some of the alleged errors are almost identical with some of those enumerated in Massey v. Smith, 224 Ga. 721. The appellant here, as in the Massey case, is a white…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
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- State v. JacksonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1970
- Neal v. SmithSupreme Court of Georgia · 1970
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