State v. James
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Pressley, J., Darlington, March, 1889. The charge -was as follows: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen: We have listened very patiently to the testimony and the argument in this case, and now comes the time when we are to do our duty. The main duty in this case is with you. There is very little law involved in it, and I have nothing to do with any implications or any opinion whatever on the facts.
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Before Pressley, J., Darlington, March, 1889. The charge -was as follows: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen: We have listened very patiently to the testimony and the argument in this case, and now comes the time when we are to do our duty. The main duty in this case is with you. There is very little law involved in it, and I have nothing to do with any implications or any opinion whatever on the facts. My du'y ends when I shall call your attention to the law — the settled legal principles by which you are to be governed in arriving at a correct conclusion in a trial of this sort. I shall do that to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Me. JUSTICE MoIver.
The appellant was indicted jointly with William Scott, Lewis Williams, and Robert Arthur for the murder of his father, Joseph James, and a motion to sever in the trial having been granted at a previous term of the court, the solicitor elected to try appellant first, and at March term, 1888, the appellant was tried and found guilty. Sentence having been passed, defendant appeals upon the several grounds set out in the record. The theory upon which the case for the State rested was that the appellant had hired his three co-defendants…
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