State v. Rasor

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice BeEasE.

The appellants, Henry Rasor, Lathan Crisp, and Eugene Crisp, all white, together with Ernest Hitt, white, and Isaiah (“Coot”) Richards, colored, were charged, in the Court of General Sessions of Laurens County with the murder of W. C. Rasor, father of the appellant Henry Rasor, at the home of the deceased at Cross Hill on the night of September 26th, 1931.

The case was first called for trial at the February, 1932, term of the Court. The motion of the solicitor for a severance, so as to try the appellants, Rasor and the two…