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MOORER v. THE STATE OF S.C.

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244 S.C. 102 (1964)

135 S.E.2d 713

Louis MOORER, Appellant, v. The STATE of South Carolina, Ellis C. MacDougall, Director of the Department of Corrections, State of South Carolina, and R.F. Goodman, Warden, South Carolina State Penitentiary, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 30, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Moore & Brown and Benjamin L. Cook, Jr., of Charleston, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Everett N. Brandon, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and Julian S. Wolfe, Solicitor, of Orangeburg, for Respondents.

March 30, 1964.

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

Appellant appeals from a denial of his writ of habeas corpus by the Honorable John Grimball, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

On April 4, 1962, Louis Moorer, a Negro, was convicted of the offense of rape in the Court of General Sessions for Dorchester County and sentenced to death as provided by the laws of the State of South Carolina. The conviction and sentence were affirmed by this Court on January...

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