State v. Arnold
Supreme Court of South Carolina
The defendant, Charles Arnold, was indicted and convicted of murder for shooting George Merryweather, and, upon recommendation to mercy, was sentenced to life imprisonment in State penitentiary.
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The defendant, Charles Arnold, was indicted and convicted of murder for shooting George Merryweather, and, upon recommendation to mercy, was sentenced to life imprisonment in State penitentiary. Defendant appeals, on following exceptions: 1. Because the presiding Judge erred in allowing the witness, Buey Wardlaw, to testify to a declaration of George Merryweather, the deceased, alleged to have been made to her by him ten minutes after he was shot, as to the person who shot him, said declaration being a hearsay, and not a part of the res gestee, upon which ground it was admitted by the Judge.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
On the 19th day of November, 1895, one George Merryweather was shot, from which wound he almost immediately thereafter died. The defendant, Charles Arnold, was at the January, 1896, term of the Court of General Sessions for Abbeville County, in this State, tried before Judge Earle and a jury for having murdered said deceased. He was found guilty of murder, but recommended to the mercy of the Court. Whereupon he was sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard labor in the State penitentiary. His appeal to this Court is based upon alleged…
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