Willis v. Leeke

Lewis, Justice.

Bobby Joe Willis has appealed from an order of the lower court denying him post-conviction relief from a sentence imposed for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

Willis was indicted by the grand jury at a term of the court of general sessions for Greenville County for the offense of assault and battery with intent to kill. Thereafter, the indictment against him was transferred for trial to the Greenville County Court which had concurrent jurisdiction of the offense. Section 15-655 of the 1962 Code of Laws.

A jury in the general sessions court, to which the…