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In re Prisoners Awaiting Transfer

Supreme Court of Georgia
Apr 20, 1976
224 S.E.2d 907 (Ga. 1976)

Opinion

No. 31029.

ARGUED APRIL 13, 1976.

DECIDED APRIL 20, 1976.

Order re prisoner custody. Grady Superior Court. Before Judge Culpepper.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, G. Thomas Davis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.


The State Board of Corrections, Allen Ault, Director of Corrections, and the Department of Offender Rehabilitation, appeal from an order entered by the trial judge, with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Grady County.

The order entered in Grady County in this case is very similar to the one entered in Colquitt County and disapproved by this court in In Re Prisoners Awaiting Transfer, 236 Ga. 516. For the reasons stated in that opinion, the judgment in this case is also reversed.

Judgment reversed. All the Justices concur, except Ingram and Hall, JJ., who dissent for the reasons stated in the dissent filed in Case No. 30665.

ARGUED APRIL 13, 1976 — DECIDED APRIL 20, 1976.


Summaries of

In re Prisoners Awaiting Transfer

Supreme Court of Georgia
Apr 20, 1976
224 S.E.2d 907 (Ga. 1976)
Case details for

In re Prisoners Awaiting Transfer

Case Details

Full title:IN RE PRISONERS AWAITING TRANSFER

Court:Supreme Court of Georgia

Date published: Apr 20, 1976

Citations

224 S.E.2d 907 (Ga. 1976)
224 S.E.2d 907

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