State v. Haulcomb

Littlejohn, Justice:

The defendants, Ronald Stephen Haulcomb and Kenneth Pinneau, were tried by jury in July, 1971, in the Court of *263General Sessions oí Sumter County on indictments charging them with safecracking and housebreaking. In an opening statement to the jury, defendants admitted the allegations of the indictments and thereafter relied solely on the defense of entrapment.

The jury wrote a verdict of guilty as to, each charge and both defendants were sentenced. Thereafter, a timely appeal was filed with this Court. Subsequently, defendants moved before this Court to suspend the appeal…