State v. McDonald

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

The defendant, Furman McDonald, was convicted of the murder- of H. B. Thompson, Jr, at the -'June term of the Court of General Sessions, 1936, in Fairfield County, and sentenced by the presiding Judge to death by electrocution.

McDonald is,a white man, and -was 43 years of age at the time of his trial. He is married, and is the father’ of four children. The deceased, H. B. Thompson, Jr, was a lad of thirteen year's, who lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Thompson, in the Greenbriar section of Fairfield County, at Mossydale,…