Catoe v. State

Moss, Justice.

Johnny J. Catoe, the appellant herein, was tried at the June 1948 term of the Court of General Sessions for Lancaster County, upon an indictment charging him with murder. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder, with a recommendation to the mercy of the Court, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which said sentence is being presently served in the South Carolina State Penitentiary. At the trial the appellant was represented by counsel of his own choosing.

The appellant, on February 3, 1962, which was more than thirteen years after he had been tried, convicted and…