Case Name: MATHIS v. SMITH
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1971-02-15
Citations: 227 Ga. 314
Docket Number: 26339
Parties: MATHIS v. SMITH.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 227
Pages: 314–314

Head Matter:
26339.
MATHIS v. SMITH.
Submitted February 9, 1971
Decided February 15, 1971.
Jerry Dale Mathis, pro se.
Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, Courtney Wilder Stanton, Dorothy T. Beasley, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Grice, Justice.
This appeal is from the denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus wherein the sole complaint is that the charge given on alibi in the criminal trial deprived petitioner of due process of law by placing an unwarranted burden of proof upon him, depriving him of the presumption of innocence and misleading and confusing the jury. This complaint is made for the first time in the habeas corpus petition.
There is no merit in this appeal. Shoemake v. Whitlock, 226 Ga. 771 (177 SE2d 677).
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.