State v. Dawkins
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Pressley, J., Edgefield, August, 1889. This was an indictment against William Dawkins and William Davis alias Bulger Davis for burglary. The prosecutor testified that on the night of June 21, 1889, he locked his front door, fastened down the windows with a catch, and latched the back door, which might be opened from the outside by turning this latch.
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Before Pressley, J., Edgefield, August, 1889. This was an indictment against William Dawkins and William Davis alias Bulger Davis for burglary. The prosecutor testified that on the night of June 21, 1889, he locked his front door, fastened down the windows with a catch, and latched the back door, which might be opened from the outside by turning this latch. During that night, he heard some one walking in the house, and on the following Monday evening, which was the next time that he went to his safe, he found the money missing. The judge charged the jury as follows : The first inquiry is, was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McIver.
This case w'as submitted without argument on either side, and the record consists only of the testimony, the charge of the Circuit Judge, and the grounds of appeal, together with a brief statement of what occurred in the court below after the verdict was first rendered; but what sentence was passed upon the defendants nowhere appears. We are, therefore, left to conjecture whether the accused were sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, with hard labor, during their whole lives, as originally provided by the act of 1878, now…
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