STATE v. ALEXANDER

23344

303 S.C. 408 (1991)

401 S.E.2d 167

The STATE, Respondent v. Wayne Eugene ALEXANDER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided February 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dallas D. Ball, Pickens, and Salley G. Young, Greenville, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., and Norman Mark Rapoport, Staff Atty. Miller W. Shealy, Jr., Columbia, and Sol. George M. Ducworth, Anderson, for respondent.


Heard Nov. 1, 1989.

Decided Feb. 11, 1991.

FINNEY, Justice:

Appellant Wayne Eugene Alexander fatally shot Charles Burrell in a bar owned and operated by Burrell. Despite appellant's claim that the shooting was accidental, he was convicted of murder. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

Approximately seven months before Burrell was killed, the appellant had been sentenced in magistrate court as a result of his arrest for entering Burrell's...

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