State v. Cannon
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Spartanburg, December, 1896. Indictment against Chris Cannon for murdering Capt. Blassingame. The following is the charge of the Circuit Judge, omitting the formal part: Now, you will take first into consideration, did the defendant make a statement which would lead you to believe that he was in the house? Under what circumstances was he in that house? And from the fact that he was there, and the bullet holes appearing in the wall, as detailed here by the…
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Before Gary, J., Spartanburg, December, 1896. Indictment against Chris Cannon for murdering Capt. Blassingame. The following is the charge of the Circuit Judge, omitting the formal part: Now, you will take first into consideration, did the defendant make a statement which would lead you to believe that he was in the house? Under what circumstances was he in that house? And from the fact that he was there, and the bullet holes appearing in the wall, as detailed here by the witnesses, are you satisfied that a murder was committed in the house, and was the defendant present? If you find that he…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
Appellant seeks to reverse the judgment imposed upon his conviction under indictment for the murder of John H. Blassingame, committed in Spar-tanburg city, August 15th, 1896.
1 1. It is excepted, first, that the Circuit Judge erred in allowing the witness, J. M. Elford, to testify that his house had been broken into on Thursday and again on Saturday before the homicide, which occurred on Sunday. We do not see any error in admitting this testimony. It was merely explanatory of the presence of the deceased in the house of the witness,…
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