State v. Pauling

Moss, Chief Justice.

Stanley Pauling and David Kennedy were indicted by the grand jury of Newberry County and charged with the crimes of robbery and assault and battery with intent to kill. When the case was called for trial at the 1974 May Term of the Court of General Sessions, Kennedy entered a plea of guilty. The appellant was tried before the Honorable Francis B. Nicholson, Presiding Judge, and a jury, on May 30, 1974. The jury found him guilty of (1) robbery and (2) assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. At appropriate stages of the trial the appellant made motions for a…