Petition to Stay Enforcement of Judgment of Georgia Supreme Court
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January 1, 1969
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Case Files, Furman v. Georgia Hardbacks. Petition to Stay Enforcement of Judgment of Georgia Supreme Court, 1969. fab54f48-b425-f011-8c4e-7c1e5267c7b6. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5a97a04e-188d-4f96-a90f-886ca771d2fc/petition-to-stay-enforcement-of-judgment-of-georgia-supreme-court. Accessed July 30, 2025.
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WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN
ITION TO STAY ENFORCEMERN
OF JUDGMENT OF SUPREME COURT
NO. 25163. IN SUPREME COURT
OF GEORGIA. WRIT OF ERROR
FROM THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
SHATHAM COUNTY.
STATE OF GEORGIA
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TO THE HONORABLE W. HM. DUCKWORTH, the Chief Justice of the
supreme Court of Georgia:
NOW comes WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN, the Plaintiff-in-
Iprror in the above stated case and files this his petition to
Stay the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Georgia and withhold
the issuance of a remittitur to the Superior Court of Chatham
County, Georgia, and for grounds thereof alleges:
1.
That Plaintiff-in-Error will, within the time pro-
vided by law, to-wit: Ninety days from the date of the judg-
ment of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia (Rule 38-A)
of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States and
28 0.9: 0 A... Section 2101 (cc), file his petition for writ
of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the tinited States.
2.
That the Supreme Court of the United States has
jurisdiction’ to act on such petition when filed by virtue of
Title 28 Section 2101, U. 8. Cx A., because Constitutional
questions are involved in the case.
That a stay of the Enforcement of the sentence and
the issuance of a remittitur to the Superior Court of Chatham
County, Georgia granted by a Judge of the of the Supreme Court