State v. Graham

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

Under an indictment charging him with the murder of one Sam Singleton, in the county of Horry, May 24, 1930, the defendant, Duther Graham, was tried in the Court of General Sessions for said county before his Honor, Judge S. W. G. Shipp, and a jury, June 6, 1930; the trial resulting in a verdict of guilty, without recommendation to the mercy of the Court.-The defendant’s motion for a new trial being refused from sentence of death by electrocution the defendant has appealed to this Court.

In passing upon the appeal we shall not…