State v. Stuckey
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Spartanburg, July term, 1899. Indictment against J. K. Stuckey for murder of John Sevier. From verdict of manslaughter, and sentence thereon, defendant appeals on the following exceptions, alleging error in the trial Judge: I. In allowing the witnesses, Dr. W. W. Rigby and Jno-. Hart, to- testify and state that John Sevier, the deceased, in his alleged dying declarations, stated that he had been “cowardly” shot or “murdered” — the same being not the…
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Before Gary, J., Spartanburg, July term, 1899. Indictment against J. K. Stuckey for murder of John Sevier. From verdict of manslaughter, and sentence thereon, defendant appeals on the following exceptions, alleging error in the trial Judge: I. In allowing the witnesses, Dr. W. W. Rigby and Jno-. Hart, to- testify and state that John Sevier, the deceased, in his alleged dying declarations, stated that he had been “cowardly” shot or “murdered” — the same being not the statement of a fact but the opinion of the said Sevier. II. In allowing the witness, Dr. W. W. Rigby, to- testify and state that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
1 The defendant was indicted for the murder of John Sevier. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The defendant has appealed therefrom. His exceptions are more than fifty in number. All those exceptions relating to murder 'being exceptions one, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and subdivisions (1), (4), (5), (6), (7), (10), (11), (12) of exception twenty, are overruled, because the verdict of the jury has determined that murder is no- longer…
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