Blalock v. Corpe

Full title: BLALOCK v. CORPE, Superintendent of Battey State Hospital

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: May 8, 1959

108 S.E.2d 715 (Ga. 1959)

108 S.E.2d 715

Opinion

20449.

SUBMITTED APRIL 14, 1959.

DECIDED MAY 8, 1959.

Habeas corpus. Floyd Superior Court. Before Judge Hicks. February 5, 1959.

Hugh J. Martin, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Hamilton B. Stephens, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.

WYATT, Presiding Justice.

Notice of the escape from custody of the defendant having been brought to this court by affidavit of the proper officer, and counsel for the defendant having admitted in this court that the defendant has escaped from custody and is now at large, under the authority of many cases of this court, the writ of error must be dismissed. See Gentry v. State, 91 Ga. 669 ( 17 S.E. 956), and Ramsey v. State, 212 Ga. 793 ( 96 S.E.2d 250).

Writ of error dismissed. All the Justices concur.

SUBMITTED APRIL 14, 1959 — DECIDED MAY 8, 1959.

DUCKWORTH, C. J.

I concur solely because I am bound by the decisions cited in the opinions, which I think are unsound and should be overruled.