State v. Rivers

Appellant was put upon trial in the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County on an indictment charging him with the murder of one Purse A. Wansley, a police officer of the City of Charleston, was by a jury found guilty without recommendation to mercy, and the sentence by the Court to death by electrocution automatically followed.

There are ten exceptions to the judgment of the Circuit Court, and they will be considered separately, except when it is convenient to group them.

Exception 1 alleges error for that the trial Judge, in charging the jury with respect to the right of a police or…