State v. Fuller

Moss, Chief Justice.

Mary Christine Gardner, a white teenage girl of the Callison Community of Greenwood County, died on August 21, 1967, from a massive hemorrhage within her abdominal cavity, due to severance of one or more of the large blood vessels therein. There was evidence that she had many paired puncture wounds in many places on her body and such were inflicted with a two tined cooking fork.

■ Louis Fuller, Jr., the appellant herein, was arrested on August 22, 1967, and charged with the murder of Mary Christine Gardner. He was indicted for such murder by the Grand Jury of Greenwood…