Bowers v. State

Taylor, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an Order of the Honorable John Grimball, dated February 19, 1962, denying Appellant’s petition for correction of sentences. Judge Grimball considered the petition as one for writ of habeas corpus and denied it on the grounds that it set forth no basis for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus.

In October, 1950, Appellant was convicted of murder in the Court of General Sessions in Hampton County and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Honorable Woodrow Lewis. Subsequently, in June, 1961, Appellant was again convicted of murder in the same Court and…