State v. Douglas
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Bowman, ]., Orangeburg. May term, 1919. Elijah Douglas and Otis Douglas indicted for the murder of Fuller Sanford. From a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy as to Elijah Douglas, and of manslaughter as to Otis Douglas, the defendants appeal. cite: Testimony as to conspiracy between deceased, apd others admissible: 5 R. C. F. 1087; 5 Ann. Cas. 976 and note.
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Before Bowman, ]., Orangeburg. May term, 1919. Elijah Douglas and Otis Douglas indicted for the murder of Fuller Sanford. From a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy as to Elijah Douglas, and of manslaughter as to Otis Douglas, the defendants appeal. cite: Testimony as to conspiracy between deceased, apd others admissible: 5 R. C. F. 1087; 5 Ann. Cas. 976 and note. Acts in furtherance of conspiracy occurring before the homicide, connected in point of time and place, are admissible: 71 S. C. 140, 68 S. C. 304; 68 S. C. 421; 12 Rich. 430-442; 85 S. C. 101; even where one conspirator…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
The defendants were indicted for murder and tried before Judge Bowman and a jury at the May term of the Court, 1919, for Orangeburg County. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mercy as to Elijah Douglas, and guilty of manslaughter, as to Otis Douglas.
1 After sentence both appealed. The exceptions, eleven in number, raise four questions, first, Exclusion of competent testimtony. The appellants impute error in excluding the evidence of Ponnie Barre offered on the part of the defendant. The theory of the…
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