Court Opinion

ID: 9606830
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 02:53:00.407787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:02:35.488871
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*170Hill, Justice,
dissenting.
The purpose of the writ of habeas corpus is to determine the legality of the state’s restraint of a person’s liberty. Code Ann. § 50-101(c) provides that "Any person restrained of his liberty as a result of a sentence imposed by any State court of record may sue out a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of such restraint.” As stated in Stynchcombe v. Hardy, 228 Ga. 130 (184 SE2d 356) (1971), the question to be decided in a habeas corpus proceeding is whether the "confinement” of the prisoner is legal.
The writ is directed to the legality of the confinement (restraint). Our statute clearly provides that where a prisoner seeks relief by habeas corpus "All grounds for relief claimed by a petitioner for a writ of habeas corpus shall be raised by a petitioner in his original or amended petition. Any grounds not so raised are waived unless the Constitution of the United States or of the State of Georgia otherwise requires, or any judge to whom the petition is assigned, on considering a subsequent petition, finds grounds for relief asserted therein which could not reasonably have been raised in the original or amended petition.”
The trial judge to whom this petition was assigned did not find grounds for relief asserted therein which could not reasonably have been raised in the original or amended petition. In my view, the trial court did not err in granting the state’s motion to dismiss the petitioner’s second application for writ of habeas corpus.