Opinion

Fowler v. Grimes

  • 198 Ga. 84
  • 31 S.E.2d 174
  • 1944 Ga. LEXIS 372
Court
Supreme Court of Georgia
Filed
Jun 12, 1944
Status
Published
Author
Wyatt
On the bench
Wyatt, Bell
Cited by
34 cases

“Under the evidence, the judge was authorized to find that no request was made of the trial judge either by the accused or his counsel for an opportunity to confer privately and without the presence of the deputy marshal; and this being true, it does not appear that any right of the applicant was violated.”

How later courts described this case

  • “Under the evidence, the judge was authorized to find that no request was made of the trial judge either by the accused or his counsel for an opportunity to confer privately and without the presence of the deputy marshal; and this being true, it does not appear that any right of the applicant was violated.”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Wyatt, Justice,

concurring specially. I concur in the judgment in this case. It is my opinion, however, that with the possible exception of the question dealt with in division five of the opinion, all questions raised in this habeas-eorpus proceeding could and should have been made in a motion for new trial when the plaintiff in error was convicted, and can not now be raised by habeas 'corpus. I am unwilling even by inference or assumption

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to substitute habeas corpus for a writ of error, or other remedial procedure to correct errors in the trial of a criminal case. I am of the opinion that the question -raised in division five of the majority opinion could have been taken advantage of by a direct bill of exceptions, but, in any event, the conclusion reached with reference to this question is correct.

I am authorized to say that Justice Atkinson agrees with this special concurrence.

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