Mullennix v. Balkcom, 19771
Decision Date | 12 September 1957 |
Docket Number | No. 19771,19771 |
Citation | 99 S.E.2d 832,213 Ga. 490 |
Parties | Calvin C. MULLENNIX v. R. P. BALKCOM, Jr., Warden. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Calvin C. Mullennix, pro se.
Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., E. Freeman Leverett, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Max Cheney, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court
Seay v. Sanford, 5 Cir., 158 F.2d 281; Kennedy v. Sanford, D.C., 76 F.Supp. 736, affirmed 5 Cir., 166 F.2d 568, certiorari denied 333 U.S. 864, 68 S.Ct. 737, 92 L.Ed. 1143. Consequently, where, on April 22, 1953, the petitioner was sentenced in Fulton County to serve from two to two years in the penitentiary for forgery, and on June 10, 1953, was sentenced in DeKalb County to serve from two to six years for assault with intent to rape, said sentence to follow the sentence imposed in Fulton County, and on June 29, 1953, was sentenced in Coweta County to serve from four to five years for obtaining goods on false writings, said sentence to follow those previously imposed in Fulton and DeKalb Counties a petition for the writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the sentence imposed in Coweta County is null...
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