BAILEY v. MacDOUGALL

18803

251 S.C. 290 (1968)

162 S.E.2d 177

Huel C. (Buck) BAILEY, Appellant, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, Director of the Department of Corrections and the State of South Carolina and Morris Funderburk, Supervisor of Lancaster County, Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

June 12, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker of Darlington, for Appellant.

Messrs Daniel R. McLeoad, Attorney General, and Edward B. Latimer, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and George F. Coleman, Solicitor, of Winnsboro, for Respondents.

Messrs. James P. Mozingo, III, and D. Kenneth Baker of Darlington, for Appellant, in Reply.


June 12, 1968.

BUSSEY, Justice.

This is a habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner Bailey appeals from an order of the circuit court denying him relief following a hearing.

Bailey is serving a life sentence for murder, having plead guilty, with a recommendation of mercy, at the February 1965 term of the Court of General Sessions for Lancaster County. His petition, seeking only a new trial, was dated...

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