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STATE v. DUCKSON

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255 S.C. 372 (1971)

179 S.E.2d 40

The STATE, Respondent, v. Alphonso DUCKSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 3, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Richard M. Kennedy, Jr., Robert G. Price, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Matthew J. Perry, and Mrs. Betty McBride Sloan, all of Columbia, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Joel E. Gottlieb, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Columbia, and Julian S. Wolfe, Esq., Solicitor, of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

February 3, 1971.

BRAILSFORD, Justice.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of murder and sentence to life imprisonment.

The first question argued in the brief charges error in admitting evidence as to an inculpatory statement made by the defendant while in custody and in admitting in evidence the death weapon, a pistol, to which the investigating officers had been led by the challenged statement.

The defendant contends that this evidence...

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