Green v. Caldwell

Jordan, Justice.

Hershel Green is an indigent inmate of Georgia State Prison serving a 20-year sentence for burglary imposed in Lee Superior Court on May 4, 1961, and a concurrent 5-year sentence for escape imposed in Gwinnett Superior Court on May 21, 1970. In November, 1971, he initiated a habeas corpus proceeding in Tattnall Superior Court, and after a hearing the habeas corpus judge remanded him to the custody of the respondent warden.

The appeal here is from that order. Green asserts numerous errors including the refusal of the habeas corpus judge to subpoena witnesses; the refusal of the…