Legal Opinion
State v. Jackson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided June 7, 1955No. 17013PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, Justice.
Appellant, Henry Jackson, was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of murder at the June, 1954, Term of General Sessions Court for Florence County and appeals.
The testimony shows that on April 24, 1954, appellant lived with his mother near the town limits of Timmonsville, South Carolina, whether “just in or out” the record isn’t clear, in a three-room house constructed so that the rooms are in line, one behind the other, the front room being used by the mother as a bedroom, the next being used by appellant and a roomer, Cleveland Williams, as a bedroom, and the last…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Beard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- State v. FrancisSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1929
- State v. BrooksSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
- State v. ByrdSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1905
- State v. GranthamSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1953
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3Cited by21 opinions
- UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Forrest GORMAN, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- State v. NicholsSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1997
- State v. FullerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1989
- State v. HendrixSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1978
- State v. StarnesSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2000
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