WILLIAMS v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Civ. A. Nos. AC-1564, AC-1571.

237 F.Supp. 360 (1965)

Edward WILLIAMS, Petitioner, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Respondents. John MORRIS, Petitioner, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

January 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C., for Edward Williams.

James A. Hutto, Jr., Columbia, S. C., for John Morris.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., for State of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., and Edward B. Latimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S. C., for respondents.


HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.

At the April 1962 term of General Sessions Court for Richland County, South Carolina, John Morris was convicted of murder, and Edward Williams of Accessory Before the Fact to Murder. The indictment1 reads as follows

"At a Court of General Sessions, begun and holden in and for the County of Richland, in the State of South Carolina, at Richland County Court House, in the County and State aforesaid, on the...

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