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THE STATE v. WILLIAMS

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226 S.C. 525 (1955)

85 S.E.2d 863

THE STATE, Respondent, v. R.C. WILLIAMS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W.T. Bolt, Paul Culbertson, and Marshall Abercrombie, of Laurens, for Appellant.

William T. Jones, Esq., Solicitor, of Greenwood, for Respondent.

February 16, 1955.

BAKER, Chief Justice.

At the November (1953) term of the Court of General Sessions for Laurens County, the defendant-appellant was tried on an indictment charging him with the murder of Eugene Davenport. The trial resulted in his conviction of murder, without recommendation to mercy, and he was duly sentenced to suffer death by electrocution.

The appellant was on the evening of the shooting, October 21, 1953 (the deceased dying two...

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