State v. Grantham

Taylor, Justice.

Appellant was tried at the March, 1952, term of the Court of General Sessions for Darlington County and found guilty, with recommendation to mercy, of the crime of murder.

The evidence discloses that on October 24, 1951, at approximately 7 A. M., appellant telephoned Mr. Clyde Dudley, a deputy sheriff, requesting that he come to appellant’s home immediately. Upon arriving there he found the wife of appellant lying on the floor dead, she having been shot five or six times with a pistol a short while before. Near her right arm was found a large knife, described as a butcher…