State v. Hamilton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

The defendants, Jake N. Hamilton, J. D. Hamilton, Lacy Hamilton, Dunk Wright, Jr., Prince McMillan, and Lindsay Townsend, were tried at the June, 1931, term of the Court of General Sessions for Dillon County, before Hon. E. C. Dennis, Circuit Judge, and a jury, under two indictments, charging them with housebreaking and larceny and with receiving stolen goods. The specific charge on which the indictments were based was the breaking and entering the Planters’ Warehouse, in the Town of Dillon, said county, and taking three bales of…