State v. Davis

Legge, Justice.

At the regular term of the Court of General Sessions for Beaufort County, convened on June 22 and adjourned on June 25, 1959, a true bill was returned on an indictment charging appellant with rape. On the first day of a special term of that court, convened on June 29, 1959, he was tried and convicted; and thereafter, on July 2, 1959, his motion for new trial having been denied, he was sentenced to death. His appeal charges error:

1. In that notice of the order calling the special term and of the drawing of the jury for that term had been published less than ten days prior to the…