Morris v. Peacock

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The instant case first came to this court on an exception to a judgment overruling an amended motion for new trial. We affirmed that judgment in Morris v. State, 200 Ga. 471 (37 S. E. 2d, 345). It now comes to us on an exception to a judgment dismissing the writ of habeas corpus and remanding the applicant to the custody of the respondents. It is, of course, fundamental that a writ of habeas corpus sought by one convicted of a crime, who seeks thereby to obtain his liberty, can be maintained only for defects such as render the judgment of…