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- Title: Herndon v. Lowry
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 26, 1937
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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The appellant claims his conviction in a state court deprived him of his liberty contrary to the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. He assigns as error the action of the Supreme Court of Georgia in overruling his claim and refusing him a discharge upon habeas corpus. The petition for the writ, presented to the Superior Court of Fulton County, asserted the appellant was unlawfully detained by the appellee as sheriff under the supposed authority of a judgment pronouncing him guilty of attempting to incite insurrection, as defined in ? 56 of the Penal Code, and sentencing him to imprisonment