STATE v. THOMAS

20274

267 S.C. 300 (1976)

227 S.E.2d 669

The STATE, Respondent, v. Leon THOMAS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Richardson, Jr., Esq., of Columbia, for Appellant.

Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Brain P. Gibbes, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Columbia, and William W. Wilkins, Sol., and Robert M. Arial, Asst. Sol., of Greenville, for Respondent.


August 18, 1976.

Per Curiam.

The appellant, Leon Thomas, was convicted by a jury of murder committed in the course of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, in violation of § 16-52, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1962), as amended in 1974 (Supp. 1975). The trial judge sentenced him to death by electrocution. The case was appealed and argued in the June 1976 term of this Court.

Thereafter, on July 2, 1976, before an opinion was...

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