State v. Hardin
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Cherokee, Fall term, 1919. W. P. Hardin indicted for murder. From verdict of guilty of manslaughter, defendant appeals. The Court’s charge, defendant’s requests to charge, and the exceptions, referred to in opinion, follow: • Judge’s Charge. Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury: In the trial of a case, as we are now, the law imposes certain duties on you, and imposes certain duties on me.
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Before Gary, J., Cherokee, Fall term, 1919. W. P. Hardin indicted for murder. From verdict of guilty of manslaughter, defendant appeals. The Court’s charge, defendant’s requests to charge, and the exceptions, referred to in opinion, follow: • Judge’s Charge. Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury: In the trial of a case, as we are now, the law imposes certain duties on you, and imposes certain duties on me. In reaching a verdict in a case the law makes you the sole judges of what the facts are. It prohibits me from even mentioning any opinion I may have as -to the facts. It imposes upon me the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
The appellant was tried on an indictment for murder at the Fall term of Court for Cherokee county, 1919, before Judge Gary, and a jury, and found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to six years on public works. From this sentence defendant appeals, and by 10 exceptions imputes error in his Honor’s charge to the jury, and his refusal to charge certain requests asked for by the defendant.
1-7 The exceptions are all overruled, being without merit. The charge, taken as a whole, was a clear, lucid exposition of the law, applicable to the…
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