GILSTRAP v. STATE

18925

252 S.C. 625 (1969)

168 S.E.2d 88

Roy Douglas GILSTRAP, Appellant, v. The STATE of South Carolina et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

May 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Julius B. Aiken and W. Richard James, of Greenville, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General and Emmet H. Clair, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, and B. O. Thomason, Jr., Solicitor, of Greenville, for Respondents.


May 28, 1969.

MOSS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal, in forma pauperis, from an order of the circuit court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the prisoner, Roy Douglas Gilstrap, the appellant herein, to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where he is presently serving a life sentence for murder, which was imposed upon him in Greenville County, on September 9, 1960.

The Grand Jury, at the 1960 September...

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