State v. Glenn

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

The respondent was tried in 1939 at the September term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenwood County, Honorable T. S. Sease, presiding- Judge, under an indictment charging him with murder. The jury convicted him of manslaughter, and he was sentenced . to servitude in the usual form for a period of twelve years.

Thereafter, the respondent moved before Honorable A. E. Gaston, the then presiding Judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, for an order granting him a new trial upon two grounds, as follows:

“1. That one of the jurors who…