State v. Powers
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Oconee, March, 1900. Indictment against W. K. Powers for murder of J. T. Richey. From sentence, defendant appeals on exceptions hereinafter set out.
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Before Watts, J., Oconee, March, 1900. Indictment against W. K. Powers for murder of J. T. Richey. From sentence, defendant appeals on exceptions hereinafter set out. The order of Judge Gary, in question, after quashing the venire for the grand jury for 1899, is as follows: • - “It having been held by the Court at this term, in the case of the State v. W. K. Powers, from the facts developed on the motion to quash in that case, that the grand jury drawn in January, A. D. 1899, was not selected and placed in the jury box in accordance with the act of General Assembly in such case provided, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chiee Justice McIver.
The defendant was indicted for the murder of one J. T. Richey, alleged to have been committed on the 8th of August, 1899, and the case came on for trial at the March term of the Court of General Sessions for Oconee County for the year 1900. The bill of indictment having been found by a grand jury on the 12th day of March, 1900. This grand jury was composed of eighteen men, none of whom had been members of the grand jury for the preceding year, 1899, but all of whom had been drawn pursuant to the mandate of a writ of venire (a…
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