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STATE v. TRENT

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234 S.C. 26 (1959)

106 S.E.2d 527

STATE, Respondent, v. Tillman TRENT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

January 13, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Thomas W. Whiteside and T. Louis Cox, of Spartanburg, for Appellant.

Messrs. J. Allen Lambright, Solicitor, and J. Wright Nash, Assistant Solicitor, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

January 13, 1959.

OXNER, Justice.

At about eleven o'clock on the morning of July 12, 1957 appellant, Tilman Trent, killed Alton Otis Goode with a shotgun. He was tried in October, 1957 and found guilty of murder. The jury recommended mercy and appellant was sentenced to imprisonment for life.

The exceptions raise three questions. We shall first discuss the contention that the Court erred in refusing to reduce the charge from murder to manslaughter...

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