State v. Gowan

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice FishburnE.

At the March, 1934, term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County, the grand jury returned an indictment against the appellant Walter Gowan, and Milton Floyd and Dacre Walden, charging them with the murder of Ibra Burns. The indictment alleged that the mortal wound was inflicted upon the deceased in the County of Greenville on January 21, 1934, and as a result of said mortal wound he “did then and there die.”

On October 30, 1934, at the regular term of the Court of General Sessions, the appellant, Walter Gowan, and…