State v. Driggers
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Clarendon, Indictment against J. Frank Driggers for murder of Mamie Boseman. Defendant appeals from sentence. cite: Extent of inquiry in insanity: 9 Fncy., 717, 718. Improper remarks by trial Judge: 81 S. C., 379; 73 S. C., 383; 80 S. C., 383. Charging requests: 39 S. C., 108; 33 S. C., 117; 32 S. C., 43.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The defendant, J. Frank Driggers, was convicted of the murder of his sister, Mrs. Boseman. As the verdict embraced a recommendation to mercy, the Court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment. There is no need to set out the evidence in its revolting details, for the questions made by the appeal will be sufficiently clear from a very brief statement of the undisputed facts. The defendant and his sister, Mrs. Boseman, previous to the homicide, had quarrelled about the balance claimed by Mrs. Boseman to be due her on a trade of a horse…
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