State v. Jones

Mann, Acting Associate Justice.

At the November, 1953 term of General Sessions Court for Darlington County, the defendant (the respondent in this appeal) J. H. Jones pleaded guilty to an indictment charging embezzlement and was sentenced by the Honorable James M. Brailsford, Presiding Judge, to service for one year with the orally expressed willingness after the service of four months to endorse a petition for parole. On December 12, 1953, the defendant, on due Notice given, moved before Honorable J. Woodrow Lewis, Resident Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, at his Chambers for an Order…