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DICKSON v. STATE

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247 S.C. 153 (1966)

146 S.E.2d 257

Claude DICKSON, Petitioner, v. STATE of South Carolina and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, Department of Corrections, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

January 11, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Weston Houck, Esq., of Florence, for Petitioner.

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

January 11, 1966.

LEWIS, Justice.

This matter is before the Court on petition of Claude Dickson for a writ of habeas corpus and involves the legality of his present detention in the State Penitentiary under a sentence of eighteen years for manslaughter, imposed at the April, 1960, Term of the General Sessions Court for Florence County.

This is the fourth petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed...

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