State v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

The defendant, George S. Turner, was indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of E. H. Finger at the July term (1891) of the Court of General Sessions for Spartanburg County, and was thereafter sentenced to be hanged on the first Friday of October of said year. The solicitor and the counsel for the defendant, waiving the necessity for a regular “Case,” agreed upon the following statement of facts:

“From the judgment and sentence the defendant duly appealed to this court. On this appeal the judgment of the Circuit *421Court was…