Supreme Court of Georgia October 20, 1966, 23735 (Ferguson v. Balkcom)

Candler, Presiding Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding which Billy Homer Ferguson brought in the City Court of Reidsville against R. P. Balkcom, Jr. as warden of Georgia’s Tattnall County Prison. His petition alleges that he is being illegally detained by Balkcom under a sentence of death imposed upon him in Douglas County pursuant to a verdict convicting him of the murder of Luke A.