State v. Cook
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Hampton, Indictment against Vincent Cook, Bose Cook and D'aisy Cook for murder of Hampton Smith. From sentence defendants appeal. cites: Court should not be held on legal holiday: Code 1902, sec. 3094. As to the right of one to kill in defense of another: 8 Tex. App., 187; 29 Tex. App., 236; 25 Am.
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Before Watts, J., Hampton, Indictment against Vincent Cook, Bose Cook and D'aisy Cook for murder of Hampton Smith. From sentence defendants appeal. cites: Court should not be held on legal holiday: Code 1902, sec. 3094. As to the right of one to kill in defense of another: 8 Tex. App., 187; 29 Tex. App., 236; 25 Am. St. R., 723; 15 S. W., 722; 67 L. R. A., 547, note 6; 52 Mich., 616; 95 Mo., 322. The opinion in this case was filed May 27, 1906, but remittitur held up upon petition for rehearing until
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September 28, 1907. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The defendants, Vincent Cook, Bose Cook, Daisy Cook and Henry Cook, were tried at February, 1906, Term of the Court of General Sessions for Hampton County, under an indictment charging them with the murder of Hampton Smith. Vincent Cook, Bose Cook and Daisy Cook were convicted of manslaughter, and Vincent Cook and Bose Cook were convicted also under the second count of the indictment, charging them with carrying concealed weapons. The following statement appears in the record:
"On the trial of the cause the State offered testimony…
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