State v. Adams
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Spartanburg. Indictment against Tom Adams and Pink Macombson for house breaking and larceny. Both convicted, and Adams, being sentenced, appealed. cites: One defendant may introduce testimony to contradict his codefendant: 23 S. E. R., 476; 29 S. C., 230. was represented by Assistant Attorney General Townsend in oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
The defendant was indicted jointly with one Pink Macombson for house-breaking and larceny, and they were defended by different counsel. The testimony on the part of the State was “that (the) storehouse of A. G. Floyd was broken and entered on the night of the 7th or morning of the 8th of November, 1895, and that a cheese, several boxes of cartridges and three pistols were stolen; one of the pistols was a hammerless pistol and the other two were what the witnesses called ‘breakdown pistols’ — meaning a pistol that would unhinge…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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