State v. Scott

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Lewis Scott, was convicted of the murder of Walter Evans and sentenced to death by electrocution. From this judgment he appeals.

Mr. Evans, a white man, was night policeman of the town of Greeleyville. Shortly after midnight on September 14, 1945 he was found dead on the side of the road near the outskirts of the town, "about sixty feet from a street light. He had been shot through the chest with a pistol.

The appellant, a negro farm hand twenty-six years of age, was arrested at his father’s home just…