Legal Opinion
State v. Rodgers
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided February 15, 1978No. 20606PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Littlejohn, Justice:
These six cases, which have been consolidated for purposes of this proceeding, are before us pursuant to petitions filed by the State of South Carolina, ex relatione Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General. In order to better understand the issues before us, a brief recitation of the recent legislative and judicial history of the criminal murder law in South Carolina follows:
THE OLD ACT
For several decades prior to 1974, murder was defined as found in § 16-51, Code of Laws of South Carolina (1962) 1 , as: “ ‘Murder’ is the killing of any person with malice aforethought, either…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Dobbert v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Roberts v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- State v. RumseySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1976
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3Cited by20 opinions
- State v. ColemanMontana Supreme Court · 1979
- State v. LindquistIdaho Supreme Court · 1979
- Dewey E. Coleman v. Jack McCormick Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of MontanaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
- Commonwealth v. StorySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
- Woldt v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 2003
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