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SHELNUT v. STATE

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247 S.C. 41 (1965)

145 S.E.2d 420

Willie Brannon SHELNUT and Edward Gilford Sentell, Appellants, v. The STATE of South Carolina and Ellis C. MacDougall, Superintendent of South Carolina Penitentiary, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

December 1, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Murchison & West and Jack L. Marshall, of Camden, for Appellants.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Edward B. Latimer, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Respondents.

Messrs. Murchison & West and Jack L. Marshall, of Camden, for Appellants, in Reply.

December 1, 1965.

BRAILSFORD, Justice.

The petitioners, Willie Brannon Shelnut and Edward Gilford Sentell, appeal from orders of the circuit court dismissing writs of habeas corpus, which had been issued on their separate petitions, and remanding them to custody.

The petitioners were indicted at the May 1957 term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County for violation of Section 16-337, Code of 1952, known as the safe cracking statute...

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