STATE v. SANDERS

17017

227 S.C. 287 (1955)

87 S.E.2d 826

THE STATE, Respondent v. VERNON NED SANDERS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

June 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.E. Strange, Esq., of Winnsboro, for Appellant.

Robert W. Hemphill, Esq., Solicitor, of Chester, for Respondent.

C.E. Strange, Esq., of Winnsboro, for Appellant, in Reply.


June 13, 1955.

STUKES, Justice.

The eighteen-year-old appellant and Frank K. Boulware, fourteen, were jointly indicted for the murder of one Jim Sterling who was eighty-four years old and lived alone in a rural section of Fairfield county — all Negroes. At the trial the defendants were separately represented and after two State's witnesses had testified the Solicitor agreed with counsel for Boulware upon a verdict as to him of guilty with recommendation...

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