Legal Opinion
Miller v. South Carolina
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided February 17, 1970No. Civ. A. No. 70-2PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.
The petitioners in this habeas corpus proceeding are State prisoners, serving sentences imposed following pleas of guilty to indictments charging them with the statutory crimes of “Safecracking” 1 and “possessing tools, etc., to be employed in crime” 2. They were apprehended in the very act of attempting to break into a safe located in the Municipal Offices of the City of Rock Hill, South Carolina. At the time of their apprehension, they had not succeeded in opening the safe but had attempted to “pry” it open at “several positions of the safe”.…
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- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1974