Chambers v. Hall, Warden

305 Ga. 363

FINAL COPY S18A1322. CHAMBERS v. HALL. NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice. We granted Willie Chambers’s application for a certificate of probable cause to appeal the denial of his petition for habeas corpus, identifying two questions: (1) whether the habeas court erred in concluding that there was sufficient evidence of asportation (movement of the victim) under Garza v. State,

284 Ga. 696

( 670 SE2d 73) (2008), to support Chambers’s conviction for kidnapping Ryan Mantz; and (2) whether the count charging Chambers with aggravated assault of Mantz with a deadly weapon merged into his…