State v. Kennedy

June 27, 1935. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The appellant, R.D. Kennedy, was tried at a special term of the Court of General Sessions for Bamberg County in November, 1934, upon an indictment charging him with the murder of John H. Clark. He was convicted of manslaughter, and was sentenced to serve ten years in the State penitentiary or a like period upon the public works of Bamberg County.

The homicide occurred in the Town of Denmark, in Bamberg County, on July 4, 1933. At the coroner's inquest, which was promptly held following the homicide, S.G. Mayfield, Esquire, appeared as…