Legal Opinion

State v. Causer

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided February 22, 1911No. 7774PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Before SeasE, J., Sumter, October, 1909. Indictment against Alexander Causer for murder of Jim Miller. Defendant appeals from sentence of involuntary manslaughter. cites: Verdict of involuntary manslaughter cannot be legally rendered under indictment for murder: 63 L. R. A. 396; 21 Cyc. .765. Only four possible verdicts under indictment for murder: 49 > S. C. 285. cites: Indictment for murder includes involuntary manslaughter: Crim. Code, 108; 8 S. C. 237; Hughes Cr.

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1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones.

The appellant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter under an indictment for the murder of Jim Miller with a loaded shotgun, and was sentenced to imprisonment for two years.

The testimony for the State tended to show that in Sumter county on September, 1909, the deceased, a boy about eleven years old, having borrowed a shotgun- from the brother of the defendant, was out hunting with the defendant, who was about twelve years old, and two other small boys, Benjamin Miller and Raymond Causer; that defendant and deceased each…

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