MOORER v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 10043.

347 F.2d 502 (1965)

Louis MOORER, Appellant, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C., F. Henderson Moore and Benjamin L. Cook, Jr., Charleston, S. C., on brief for appellant.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

At issue before us on this appeal, which by agreement of the parties has been submitted on brief, is the correctness of the district judge's action on May 12, 1965, in dismissing an amended petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Louis Moorer, a Negro male who is currently awaiting death by electrocution pursuant to a sentence imposed upon him by the Court of General Sessions for Dorchester County, South...

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