State v. Alexander

Moss, Justice.

The appellant, Wendell Lee Alexander, along with three other defendants, at the May, 1956, term of the Court of General Sessions for Richland County, pleaded guilty to housebreaking and grand larceny. The appellant was, by the presiding Judge, sentenced to imprisonment for a term of six years. From this sentence he appeals, charging, in two exceptions, that the presiding Judge erred in sentencing the appellant to a term of six years, in that said sentence is excessive, cruel and unusual, and in violation of Article I, § 19, Constitution of South Carolina, and the Eighth…