Scott v. MacDougall

Legge, Acting Associate Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Honorable John Grimball, Judge of the Fifth Circuit, denying appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The pertinent facts appearing in the record are as follows:

On May 31, 1961, in the Court of General Sessions for *255Charleston County, appellant pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and assault with a deadly weapon; and he was thereupon sentenced to confinement in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for fifteen years. He was admitted to the State Penitentiary…