Moorer v. MacDougall

The defendant Moorer is under a death sentence and this matter is before us on motion for a stay of execution pending his application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus to the Common Pleas Court of Richland Co.unty, South Carolina, upon the several grounds hereinafter considered.

Moorer was tried and convicted at the April 1962 term of the General Sessions Court for Dorchester County, South Carolina, of the crime of rape and the death sentence imposed. The foregoing judgment was appealed to this court and was affirmed. State v. Moorer, 241 S. C. 487, 129 S. E. (2d) 330. The defendant then served…