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McCREIGHT v. MacDOUGALL

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248 S.C. 222 (1966)

149 S.E.2d 621

H. W. McCREIGHT, Appellant, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, Director, Department of Corrections, State of South Carolina, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 27, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W.L. Cooper, Jr., of Lexington, and Hubert H. Powell, Jr., of West Columbia, for Appellant.

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

July 27, 1966.

LEWIS, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant from an order of the lower court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The defendant was convicted in November 1962 of the murder of his wife and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He contends that his present detention in the South Carolina State Penitentiary under the aforesaid sentence is illegal because of the use in his trial...

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