State v. Haulcomb

260 S.C. 260 (1973)

195 S.E.2d 601

The STATE, Respondent,

v.

Ronald Stephen HAULCOMB and Kenneth Pinneau, Appellants.

19589

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 20, 1973.

Messrs. Howard P. King and David W. Goldman, of Sumter, for Appellant.

Messrs. R. Kirk McLeod, and Robert W. Burkett, of Sumter, for Respondent.

March 20, 1973.

LITTLEJOHN, Justice:

The defendants, Ronald Stephen Haulcomb and Kenneth Pinneau, were tried by jury in July, 1971, in the Court of General Sessions of Sumter County on indictments charging them with safecracking and housebreaking. In an opening statement to the jury,…