State v. Bostick

Lewis, Justice.

C. W. Floyd, the Sheriff of Jasper County, South Carolina, was fatally shot on January 18, 1962, while investigating an attempted robbery which had been reported to him. The shooting occurred in a wooded area adjacent to U. S. Highway No. 601, near the village of Pineland, in Jasper County, in the vicinity of the attempted robbery. The sheriff died while being carried in an ambulance to a hospital in Savannah, Georgia. From information received and through early pursuit of the assailant with bloodhounds, the defendant Lewis Bostick was apprehended on the same day a short…