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TUCKER v. STATE

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248 S.C. 344 (1966)

149 S.E.2d 769

Edward TUCKER, Respondent, v. STATE of South Carolina et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 26, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and C.T. Goolsby, Jr., and Edward B. Latimer, Assistant Attorneys General, of Columbia, for Appellants.

Messrs. George L. Dial, Jr., and W. Ray Berry, of Columbia, for Respondent.

August 26, 1966.

BRAILSFORD, Justice.

In this habeas corpus proceeding, the circuit court set aside the petitioner's 1934 Berkeley County sentence of imprisonment for life, and remanded him to the custody of the sheriff. The State has appealed on a single exception, which charges that the court erred in failing to hold that the petitioner's uncorroborated testimony that he was without counsel at his 1934 trial was legally insufficient to overcome the court...

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