State v. Parker

Moss, Chief Justice :

Francis Parker, the appellant herein, was tried, convicted and sentenced for the crime of safecracking at the 1964 October term of Court of General Sessions for Florence County. At the trial, one Alphonso Mack, a witness for the State, testified that he heard the appellant admit that he had cracked the safe in question.

Thereafter, the appellant made a motion for a new trial on the ground of after-discovered evidence. This motion was primarily based upon an affidavit of Alphonso Mack, a trusty serving a sentence at the Florence County Jail, having been convicted of the…