MOORER v. MacDOUGALL


245 S.C. 633 (1965)

142 S.E.2d 46

Louis MOORER, Petitioner, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 11, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Matthew J. Perry, of Columbia, and F. Henderson Moore, and Benjamin L. Cook, Jr., of Charleston, for Petitioner.

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


May 11, 1965.

PER CURIAM.

The defendant Moorer is under a death sentence and this matter is before us on motion for a stay of execution pending his application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Common Pleas Court of Richland County, South Carolina, upon the several grounds hereinafter considered.

Moorer was tried and convicted at the April 1962 term of the General Sessions Court for Dorchester County, South

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