Legal Opinion
Perry v. Mitchell
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 7, 1984No. 41200PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hill, Chief Justice.
On April 6, 1984, Charles Perry filed a petition for habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Chatham County in which he complained that he had been incarcerated for over 2 years without having been brought to trial. Although Perry is the petitioner in habeas corpus, he will be referred to herein as the defendant. The record of this case discloses the following facts.
The defendant was arrested for the murder of his grandmother on January 22, 1982, and attorney Roy Allen was appointed to represent him on January 27. A bond hearing was set for February 19 but Allen did not…
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