State v. Judge

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

At the June, 1945, term of the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, appellant was indicted for the murder of Alric A. Gore, who died from a pistol-shot wound received on the 16th day of April, prior thereto, in said Charleston County.

Upon his arraignment, the appellant pleaded not guilty and was tried before Honorable William H. Grimball, Circuit Judge, and a jury. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder, without a recommendation to mercy, and appellant was duly sentenced to suffer -death by electrocution.

From such…