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 11, 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

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