State v. McAlister

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice; Marion.

The defendants, McAlister and Nettles, two negro youths, were convicted of highway robbery, and sentenced by the presiding Judge, Hon. S. W. G. Shipp, to five years’ imprisonment. This appeal is prosecuted by the defendant Nettles.

On the evening of June 5, 1924, a white youth, 15 years old, was held up on one of the highways of Florence County, and, after being bound and gagged, was robbed of the sum of $10. On the same night the defendant McAlister and Nettles were arrested and confined in the “guardhouse” of Timmonsville. The next…