State v. Weldon
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before George Brown, Special Judge, Florence. Indictment against Alex. Weldon and William Burroughs. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
Elihu Moye was brutally murdered in his own home near Ebenezer, in Florence county, on the night of the 28th of October, 1910. Very soon thereafter,the defendants, Alexander Weldon and William Burroughs, were tried for the crime at a special term of the Court of General Sessions held for the purpose of the trial. They have appealed from the judgment of conviction and sentence of death.
The case has given this Court the utmost concern not only because the lives of the defendants are involved, but because the. record discloses that the…
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