Draft Order and Affidavit Re Appeal In Forma Pauperis

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March, 1969

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  • Case Files, Furman v. Georgia Hardbacks. Draft Order and Affidavit Re Appeal In Forma Pauperis, 1969. 34f73e93-b225-f011-8c4d-0022482c18b0. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/6e9061b2-75a5-4600-b80e-625616a1ba9a/draft-order-and-affidavit-re-appeal-in-forma-pauperis. Accessed July 12, 2025.

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    STATE OF GEORGIA 
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COUNTY OF CHATHAM 

STATE OF GEORGIA 

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AND NOW COMES the movant and files this his applicat- 

ion to the Supreme Court for an Order allowing him to prosecute | 

his appeal In Forma Pauperis and for grounds say: | 

1. That he was convicted in Chatham Superior Court on 

the 20th day of September, 1968, for the offense of murder and 

sentenced to death. 

2. That said cases by AnFasvont of the Court were con- 

soclidated and tried and submitted to the same jury. 

3. That he has filed his Motion for New Trial in said 

case which was overruled on all grounds from which an appeal is 

being taken. | 

4. That he is an indigent and has no property or funds 

nor any possibility of acquiring any funds to enable him to an- 

peal his case to the Appellate Court of Georgia and to the United 

States Supreme Court. 

S. Petitioner is unemployed and is incarcerated in jail 

6. That he has no friends or relatives that are in a 

position to raise any monies for him whatsoever. 

7. That petitioner and counsel has been under the inm- 

pression that additional funds could be raised but now find that 

this conviction to a death sentence makes it impossible for hin 

to be able to do so. 

8. That under the laws of Georgia, without a transcrint 

of the record being obtained and filed. the appeal will he guto- 

4   matically dismissed and he will go to his death without the op- 

portunity of having his conviction reviewed. 

    
  

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Due and legal service is herehy acknowledged on the 

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further service and notice is hereby waived. 

  

This day of March, 1968. 
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STATE OF GEORGIA 

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PERSONALLY APPEARED before the undersigned Notary 
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Public WILLIAM HENRY FURMAN, who, being duly sworn on oath, says 

that he is an indigent: that he has no funds or property out of 

which he can raise the necessary money to obtain a transcript 

of the record: that his means of obtaining money has been ex- 

hausted that because of his conviction to a death sentence, no 

one has offered to assist him in any way whatsoever: that unless 

he obtains a transcript at the expense of the State of Ceorgia 

or the County of Chatham, his appeal will be futile and he will 

lose his life without his constitutional right of appeal. 

That this affidavit is being made to he used in con- 

nection with his appeal to the Anpellate Court of feorgia and the 

iinited States Supreme Court. 

  

SWORN to and subscribed before 

me this day of March, 1969. 

NOTARY PUBLYC, STATY OF GEORGIA 

      
     



  

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WHERLFORE, 

(a) That this his motion be granted and that a trans- 

cript te ordered at the expense of the State or 

B. Clarence Mayfield 
010 West Broad St. 
Savanna, Georgia 

PETITIONER PRAYS: 

  

  

  County of Chathanm.| 

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ATTORNEY TORTTOVART |

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