Dickson v. State

Lewis, Justice.

This matter is before the Court on petition of Claude Dickson for a writ of habeas corpus and involves the legality of his present detention in the State Penitentiary under a sentence of eighteen years for manslaughter, imposed at the April, 1960, Term of the General Sessions Court for Florence County.

This is the fourth petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the petitioner since his conviction in 1960 — the first was denied by Order of Judge James Hugh McFaddin under date of October 25, 1962; the second by Order of Judge G. Badger Baker on November 7, 1963; and the third…