White v. State

Bussey, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Honorable John Grimball, Resident Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, dismissing, after a full hearing, a writ of habeas corpus and remanding appellant prisoner to the South Carolina Penitentiary, where he is serving a twenty-five year sentence for manslaughter, imposed at the December 1963 term of the Court of General Sessions for Richland County, following a plea of guilty by the said White.

At the time of his plea, White was represented by counsel of long experience in the criminal courts, who was retained by a brother of the…