Legal Opinion

State v. Duncan

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided July 18, 1910No. 7632PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Before Gage, J., Aiken, Ball term, 1909. Indictment against Mark Duncan for murder of William Brooks. Brom sentence on verdict of manslaughter, defendant appeals. cite: Prosecuting attorney should not be permitted to make comments outside the evidence: 17 Ency.,- 926; 2 Ency., P. & P., 727; Weeks on Attorneys, sec. 112; Proffatt on Jury Trials, sec. 250; 13 S. E., 131; 70 Am. Sit. R., 499; 48 Am. St R., 2-67; 85 Ga., 297; 9 Am. St R.,'559; 12 Tex.

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1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Hydrick.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of William Brooks. He and Brooks had a fight on Wednesday night about eight o’clock, in which appellant admitted that he used his knife and tried' to cut Brooks, but did not know whether he had done so or not. After they fought some time, Brooks ran away, and appellant pursued him some distance, but he gave up the pursuit, and returned to the house in front of which the fight occurred, and asked for a gun, saying that Brooks had cut him. He then reported the matter to the town…

2Cases cited2 opinions

State v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1903
State v. RobertsonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1887

3Cited by10 opinions

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