Harris v. Whittle

10 S.E.2d 926, 190 Ga. 850, 1940 Ga. LEXIS 581

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: September 24, 1940
• Docket: 13435.
• Status: Published

Opinion

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

1. The writ of habeas corpus is an available remedy for release of one illegally restrained of his liberty. Code, § 50-101. Detention by arrest under a bench warrant based on an indictment regular upon its face (§ 27-801) is not illegal; and consequently the writ of habeas corpus is not available for discharge of one so arrested. § 50-116 (3). See 29 C. J. 45, § 37; Holder v. Beavers, 141 Ga. 217 (2) (80 S. E. 715); Jackson v. Lowry, 170 Ga. 755 (154 S. E. 228). The judge did not err in refusing to discharge the accused on writ of habeas corpus.

. 2. It is unnecessary to pass on other assignments of error in reference to the right of the State to place a person on trial under an indictment for robbery by force, where such person had been previously acquitted under an indictment for murder committed during an attempted robbery, based on the same facts, and dependent for conviction upon the same evidence as was depended upon in the trial for murder.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur. Pierce Brothers, Benjamin B. Pierce Jr., and 0. Franklin Pierce, for plaintiff. George Hains and J. Cecil Davis, solicitors-general, for defendant.