Court Opinion

ID: 9589322
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:43:37.70995+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:22.434571
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Weltner, Justice,
concurring specially.
Akins’ death sentences were set aside in 1972. His conviction was affirmed by this Court in 1974.
Now, more than ten years after the kidnapping and rape of a six-year-old child, he complains for the first time of an error in the charge — given more than nine years ago.
Habeas corpus is a civil proceeding. There is no reason that a bar for want of timeliness should not be interposed here, as in other civil matters, particularly as this defendant has been before this Court twice before. I would reverse for want of timely application.
I am authorized to state that Justice Smith joins in this concurrence.