State v. Dupre

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Watts.

“Tom DuPre was charged with the murder of B. H. Hatcher, and tried on such indictment at the summer term, 1924, of General Sessions for Marlboro County. On this trial he was found by the jury guilty with a recommendation of mercy. From this verdict and the sentence of the Court to life imprisonment, he now appeals.”

The exceptions are. fourteen in number, and need not be considered seriatim, as the trial Judge was in error in not charging the jury that the warrant under which the officers were attempting to search the defendant’s house…