State v. Kenny
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Indictment against George Kenny, Alonzo Goodwin and Harmon Wilson for murder. George Kenny alone put on trial. Prom sentence he appeals. Court has no right of its own motion to depose Summers and appoint other counsel: Code, 1902, 2815-6. Error to surround prisoner with armed guards during trial: 76 S. C., 128; 10 Am.
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Indictment against George Kenny, Alonzo Goodwin and Harmon Wilson for murder. George Kenny alone put on trial. Prom sentence he appeals. Court has no right of its own motion to depose Summers and appoint other counsel: Code, 1902, 2815-6. Error to surround prisoner with armed guards during trial: 76 S. C., 128; 10 Am. R., 296; 64 Mo., 590; 2 N. Met., 297. It was an abuse of discretion to grant a severance and force prisoner to trial alone: 49 S. C., 410. It was an abuse of discretion to force defendant’s counsel to trial while sick: 50 S. C., 403. Error to permit defendant to be contradicted…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
The defendant, George Kenny, was convicted at the November, 1906, term of the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, of the murder of Herman G. Stello, a guardsman at the stockade where the convicts of the Charleston County^chaingang were confined. ' The facts as proved by the State were as follows: On the 16th of August, 1906, Harmon Wilson, George Kenny and Alonzo Goodwin, in pursuance of a previously made plan, pretended that they were sick and unable to work, consequently, they with two other convicts, Clark and…
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