George W. Ferguson v. Wyndham Manning, Superintendent of the South Carolina Prison

This is an appeal from an order denying a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner incarcerated under- the judgment and sentence of a court of the State of South Carolina. Petitioner was convicted under two counts of an indictment one of which charged conspiracy to set up a .numbers lottery and the other the actual setting up of the lottery. He was given a sentence of three years imprispn.ment and a fine under the conspiracy count and a sentence of one year and a fine under the cpunt charging the substantive offense. - On appeal to the Supreme Court, of the state, he contended that the law of the…