STATE v. RICHARDSON

18931

253 S.C. 468 (1969)

171 S.E.2d 717

The STATE, Respondent, v. Cornell RICHARDSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

June 12, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.L. Clinton, Esq., of Sumter, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Emmet H. Clair, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and R. Kirk McLeod, Solicitor, of Sumter, for Respondent.


June 12, 1969.

LEWIS, Justice.

Defendant Cornell Richardson has appealed from a conviction of manslaughter for the killing of his son. He was tried in the General Sessions Court of Sumter County and received a sentence of seven (7) years. He seeks in this appeal a new trial upon the grounds that prejudicial error was committed in (1) the admission in evidence of a written confession signed by him, (2) the failure...

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