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WYATT v. STATE

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243 S.C. 197 (1963)

133 S.E.2d 120

Lee R. WYATT, Appellant, v. The STATE of South Carolina, Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, Board of Corrections, State of South Carolina, and R. Fuller Goodman, Warden, South Carolina State Penitentiary, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

November 5, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee R. Wyatt, Appellant, Pro Se., of Columbia.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Clarence T. Goolsby, Jr., and Edward B. Latimer, Assistant Attorneys General, of Columbia, for Respondents.

November 5, 1963.

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

The Appellant was convicted of the murder of his wife upon a consent verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy on December 7, 1961, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is presently serving this sentence in the State Penitentiary.

On October 6, 1962, Appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, which was denied without hearing by the Honorable John Grimball in his Order of October...

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