State v. Jeffcoat

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Blease.

The defendant, Dewey Jeffcoat, a white man, was con victed in the Court of General Sessions for Lexington County on a 'charge of having committed an assault and cbattery with intent to kill upon Alex Wise, a colored man. The defendant was sentenced by the late lamented Judge DeVore to serve 4 years at hard labor in the penitentiary or on the public works of Lexington County.

Wise was a convict, and the difficulty occurred at a chain gang camp in Lexington County. The State contended that the defendant, in an intoxicated condition,…