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MORRIS v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Nos. 10011, 10023.

356 F.2d 432 (1966)

John MORRIS, Appellant, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Appellees. Edward WILLIAMS, 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 February 1, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Hutto, Jr., Columbia, S. C. (Court-assigned counsel) [Hutto & Hutto, Columbia, S. C., on brief], for appellant Morris.

Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C. (Court-assigned counsel) [Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., and Hemphill P. Pride, II, Columbia, S. C., on brief], for appellant Williams.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, and Edward B. Latimer, Asst. Atty. Gen. of South Carolina (J. C. Coleman, Asst. Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, John W. Foard, Jr., Sol., Fifth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, on brief), for appellees.

Ronald P. Sokol, Charlottesville, Va., amicus curiæ.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

PER CURIAM.

In these companion cases writs of habeas corpus were sought upon the ground, among others, that their confessions were introduced in evidence against them in violation of their constitutional rights. The appeal in the Morris case was heard, after which we disposed of his other contentions but scheduled the case for reargument, along with the Williams case and several others which presented a miscellany of problems...

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