Johnson v. Caldwell

Hawes, Justice.

The appeal in this case is from the judgment of the Superior Court of Tattnall County remanding petitioner to the custody of the warden. Johnson filed a pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus contending in substance that he had been sentenced under a plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with assault with intent to murder; that he had served the maximum time provided by law under the sentence, which sentence was for 10 years, and that he was being held by the warden in violation of his rights guaranteed under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States…