State v. Carpenter

Moss, Chief Justice:

Harold Carpenter, the appellant herein, and his brother Bennett Ray Carpenter, were tried in the Greenville County Court upon the charge of committing an assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature upon Ed Whitmire, a policeman in the Gantt District of Greenville County. The appellant was found guilty as charged while his brother was found not guilty. The appellant made a motion for a new trial and such was refused. He was thereafter sentenced to serve a term of eighteen months, suspended on the service of six months and three years probation. This appeal followed.

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