State v. Osborne

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge E. D. Lide, Acting Associate Justice:

The defendant above named, Sammie Osborne, was tried for murder at the September, 1941, Term of the Court of General Sessions for Barnwell County before Honorable J. Strom Thurmond, presiding Judge, and a jury, and was found guilty. His motion for a new trial having been overruled he was sentenced to death by electrocution; and the cause comes before this Court upon his appeal from the judgment of the Circuit Court.

It appears that on the first day of the term, to wit, September 15, 1941, the defendant…