Dillard v. State

Moss, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and requiring Isom Dillard, the appellant herein, to serve a life sentence imposed upon him by the Court of General Sessions in Greenville County, South Carolina, on October 25, 1962.

The appellant was brought to trial in the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County, South Carolina, on October 25, 1962, on an indictment charging him with the murder of one Floree Gault. At the trial the appellant was represented by retained counsel. After the State had presented its case, the…