State v. Taylor
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Newberry, July, 1899. Indictment against Noah R. Taylor for murder. The charge is as follows, omitting the formal parts: In this case there is little law to give you.
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Before Gary, J., Newberry, July, 1899. Indictment against Noah R. Taylor for murder. The charge is as follows, omitting the formal parts: In this case there is little law to give you. There is no plea here of self-defense, so I need not burden you with telling you what the law of self-defense is, because it is not an issue in the case, and that being eliminated, the case is narrowed down mostly to a question of fact and not a question of law- — the State charging, on the one hand, that the killing of this woman was wilful and malicious; the defendant contending, on the other hand, that it was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
Under an indictment for the murder of Mary E. Taylor (the wife of the prisoner), the defendant was found guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the Court, and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the State penitentiary, at hard labor. From this judgment defendant gave due notice of appeal, based upon the several exceptions which will be hereinafter stated and considered. The undisputed testimony, which is set out in the “Case,” tends to show that on Sunday morning, the 5th day of March, 1899, the deceased, while in her…
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