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BOWERS v. STATE

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241 S.C. 282 (1962)

127 S.E.2d 881

John D. BOWERS, Appellant, v. STATE of South Carolina and W.M. Manning, Superintendent, South Carolina State Penitentiary, Columbia, South Carolina, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

October 30, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Bowers, of Columbia, Appellant, Pro Se.

Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Clarence T. Goolsby, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Respondents.

October 30, 1962.

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an Order of the Honorable John Grimball, dated February 19, 1962, denying Appellant's petition for correction of sentences. Judge Grimball considered the petition as one for writ of habeas corpus and denied it on the grounds that it set forth no basis for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus.

In October, 1950, Appellant was convicted of murder in the Court of General Sessions in Hampton...

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