State v. Martin

Baker, Chief Justice.

At the March, 1949, term of the Court of General Sessions for Horry County, the appellant was tried on an indictment charging him with the murder of one R. B. Squires on November 19, 1948, near Conway, which trial resulted in a conviction of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for the term of his life.

On this appeal therefrom, the appellant alleges that the trial Judge committed errors of law in the trial of the case and in his charge to the jury, in the following particulars: 1. In questioning two of the appellant’s character…