Legal Opinion
Griffith v. Jones
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided December 19, 1967No. Civ. A. No. 11309PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, District Judge.
Petitioner has been convicted in a Georgia state court of the crime of burglary. The only substantial evidence against him proffered by the State at his trial was a confession and some articles which, according to the confession, had come from one of the burglarized stores. But for the confession, neither the culprit nor the articles could have been identified.
Defendant was initially arrested on March 11, 1963 in Jackson County, Alabama and held in the Jackson County jail. He was questioned briefly on the night of his arrest and then again on March 12th and 13th…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- State v. GraySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1966
- William C. Fendley, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Griffith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1967
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
- Mora v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1971
- Redus v. SwensonDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 1972
- Commonwealth v. WareSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971