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SCOTT v. MacDOUGALL

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246 S.C. 252 (1965)

143 S.E.2d 457

Mervin Lee SCOTT, Appellant, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL and the State of South Carolina, and The State Attorney General, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 13, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owens T. Cobb, Jr., Esq., of Columbia, for Appellant.

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

July 13, 1965.

LEGGE, Acting Associate Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Honorable John Grimball, Judge of the Fifth Circuit, denying appellant's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The pertinent facts appearing in the record are as follows:

On May 31, 1961, in the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, appellant pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, assault and battery of a high...

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