Legal Opinion
Louis Moorer v. State of South Carolina and Ellis C. MacDougall Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 26, 1966No. 10526_1PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
2Per curiam
On August 18, 1965, the District Court conducted a hearing on a petition by Louis Moorer for a writ of habeas corpus. Moorer, a Negro, is under sentence of death after conviction in a jury trial in a South Carolina state court for the rape of a white woman.
In support of his petition he alleges, inter alia, that in South Carolina the death penalty for rape has been applied in a racially discriminatory manner. On the day of the hearing, counsel for Moorer sought a 60-day extension in order to produce statistical analysis of 355 schedules which detail the circumstances of…
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