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STATE v. PARKER

No. 23865.

433 S.E.2d 831 (1993)

The STATE, Respondent, v. John Thomas PARKER, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed June 1, 1993.

Refiled August 9, 1993.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Cothran, Jr., Spartanburg, for appellant.

Attorney General T. Travis Medlock, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen. Donald J. Zelenka, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., and James W. Rion, Jr., Columbia, and Holman C. Gossett, Spartanburg, for respondent.

TOAL, Justice:

Appellant, Parker, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. We affirm.

Facts

Parker and the victim, Miles Gwin, were originally friends in school. Unfortunately at some point their relationship deteriorated. Six months prior to the night of the murder, Parker had backed away from Gwin's invitation to fight saying that "I don't want to start nothing." This downward...

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