Leroy Jones v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia

The appellee, Leroy Jones, a state prisoner, unsuccessfully sought habeas corpus in the Georgia State Courts, Jones v. Smith, Warden, 224 Ga. 141, 160 S.E.2d 398 (1968). He then petitioned the United States District Court, which found his plea of guilty and sentence to have been invalid for lack of effective assistance of counsel. Georgia appeals. With a modification, we affirm.

We have before us the transcript of the state court evidentiary hearing. On June 9, 1965, the grand jury of DeKalb County, Georgia, indicted Jones for burglary. The next day, while being conducted from jail to the…