THOMPSON v. STATE

18846

251 S.C. 593 (1968)

164 S.E.2d 760

William B. THOMPSON, Appellant, v. STATE of South Carolina et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

December 4, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Jack F. McGuinn and G. Raymond McElveen, Jr., of Columbia, for Appellant.

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


December 4, 1968.

MOSS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of The Honorable John Grimball, Resident Judge of the Fifth Circuit, dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the prisoner, William B. Thompson, to the custody of the South Carolina Penitentiary, where he is presently serving a sentence of forty years, imposed upon him on April 20, 1965. It appears from the record that the appellant herein was indicted and charged with the...

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