Deyton v. Wanzer

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

Robert A. Deyton, Sheriff of Clayton County, appeals from the judgment of the habeas court granting petitioner Terry Lee Wanzer’s application for habeas corpus relief. Wanzer was convicted in 1974 on two counts of rape and two counts of aggravated sodomy and received three life sentences and one twenty-year term.

On habeas, Wanzer urges lack of jurisdiction in the Clayton Superior Court to try his case because the crimes had been committed in Henry County. At the hearing, he *510called the Clayton County officer who had originally investigated the case to point out…