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111 Ga. App. 853

Patton v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided June 15, 1965

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1965-06-15

Relies on Fair v. Balkcom

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Decided 1965-06-15

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1992

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Niohols, Presiding Judge.

¶1In the recent case of Fair v. Balkcom, 216 Ga. 721, 728 (119 SE2d 691), after deciding that a writ of habeas corpus should have been granted because the prisoner had been denied the right of counsel, the Supreme Court held: “The petitioner is not entitled to be released. He must face the charges against him. He is hereby remanded to the custody of the respondent prison warden, who is hereby ordered to deliver him to the custody of the Sheriff of Early County, Georgia, for further proceedings in the superior court of that county. Let the plea of guilty be withdrawn; let the judgment and sentence of the Superior Court of Early County against this petitioner be vacated and set aside; and let the accused be arraigned as though no plea had been entered.” Accordingly, the contention of the defendant in the present case that he could not be tried after having obtained his release by writ of habeas corpus because such would be double jeopardy is without merit and the trial court did not err in overruling his plea in bar based on the prior trial.

¶2The evidence adduced on the trial of the case authorized the jury to find that the defendant and another broke a window in an attempt to gain entrance into the prosecutor’s place of business before being interrupted by the prosecutor. There was also evidence that burglary tools were found nearby. The evi*855dence authorized the verdict and the trial court did not err in overruling the defendant’s motion for new trial based on the usual general grounds only.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

Eberhardt and Pannell, JJ., concur.
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