State v. Holland

Moss, Chief Justice:

At the 1971 October Term of the Court of General Sessions for Aiken County, William R. Holland, Osgood M. Leland, Gary V. Faust, Bruce G. Poe, Dennis Davis, the appellants herein, and Richard Lee Richards and Danny W. Robertson were indicted for the murder of one Thomas Bolin.

*492The case came on for trial at the same term of the court before the Honorable James A. Spruill, Jr., Presiding Judge, and a jury. At the time of the trial Danny W. Robertson had not been apprehended, and Richard Lee Richards entered a plea of guilty. After a week long trial, the jury returned a…