State v. Lindsay
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Klugh, J., Greenville, January Term, 1908. Indictment against Thomas Lindsay and -Columbus Sims for murder of J. R. Moon. From sentence on verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy, defendants appeal. cite: Declarations should have been received: 74 S. C., 498. Charge as to self-defense: 56 S. C., 398; 33 S. C., 132. oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
April 22, 1909. The opinion of the Court was delivered by At the January, 1908, term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville county, the jury convicted the defendants, Thomas Lindsay and Columbus Sims, of the murder of J.R. Moon and recommended them to the mercy of the Court. A motion for a new trial was refused.
The case is reeking with perjury on one side or the other. If the testimony of the family of the deceased be true, the defendant, Lindsay, in company with Columbus Sims, delibately commenced firing into the house of deceased, and shot him to death while he was standing on his…
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