Shelnut v. State

Brailsford, Justice.

The petitioners, Willie Brannon Shelnut and Edward Gil-ford Sentell, appeal from orders of the circuit court dismissing writs of habeas corpus, which had been issued on their separate petitions, and remanding them to custody.

The petitioners were indicted at the May 1957 term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County for violation of Section 16-337, Code of 1952, known as the safe cracking statute, which reads as follows:

“Any person convicted of using explosives, tools or any other implement in or about a safe used for keeping money or other valuables with…