Case Name: Harris v. Whittle, sheriff
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1940-09-24
Citations: 190 Ga. 850
Docket Number: No. 13435
Parties: Harris v. Whittle, sheriff.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 190
Pages: 850–851

Head Matter:
Harris v. Whittle, sheriff.
No. 13435.
September 24, 1940.
Rehearing denied October 15, 1940.

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.