Legal Opinion
State v. Funchess
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided February 8, 1971No. 19167PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Moss, Chief Justice:
Herbert Lee Funchess, the appellant herein, was brought to trial at the 1969 Term of the Court of General Sessions for Calhoun County, before The Honorable Wade S. Weatherford, Jr., presiding judge, and a jury, upon an indictment charging him with the murder of A. Callie Geiger. The jury found the appellant guilty of murder with a recommendation to mercy, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The appellant prosecutes this appeal from his conviction and sentence.
A. Callie Geiger operated a small grocery store in the western section of Calhoun County. On June 1, 1968,…
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