State v. GANTT

Pruitt, Acting Associate Justice.

The appellants were tried and convicted of the crime of murder at the June, 1951, term of the General Sessions Court for Plorry County, and sentenced to be electrocuted, as provided by law.

Before the trial the attorneys for the appellants made and argued a motion for a change of venue on the ground that the appellants could not obtain a fair and impartial trial in Horry County.

This motion, after the taking of testimony and hearing arguments, was overruled by his Honor, Judge G. Badger Baker, the Trial Judge, and this refusal is the basis for the first…