State v. Harris

Stukes, J.:

Edward L. Bennett and his wife operated a country store and filling station near the city of Aiken, with upstairs quarters in which they and their small children lived. He was found on the morning of April 28, 1946, slumped behind his store counter mortally wounded, and his wife lay a few feet away near the entrance to the adjoining kitchen, with a bullet wound from which she died upon removal to a hospital. The witness who first arrived. spoke to Bennett who was still alive, shot through the mouth and bleeding profusely. He requested that he be rushed to a hospital, saying that he…