State v. O'Shields

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

On August 14, 1930, Ernest Hillman, a young man about nineteen years of age, was stabbed and cut with a knife, from the effects of which he died a few days afterwards. The cutting took place at or near the home of the deceased at Bath, in Aiken County. The appellant, Ernest Malt O’Shields, and his son, Richard O’Shields, a boy about eighteen years old, were charged with the homicide and were tried at the October, 1930, term of Court of general sessions for Aiken County, the Honorable T. S. Sease presiding. The indictment contained…