State v. Singleton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice W. C. Cothran.

Charged with housebreaking and larceny, the appellant, John Singleton, along with John Henry Bing and Rouis Bing, was brought before the Court of Sessions for Hampton County at the February, 1931, term of that Court. John Henry Bing entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment; the trial of John Singleton resulted in a mistrial; and the defendant Rouis Bing, owing to his tender years, escaped through the meshes of the legal net, a nol. pros, being entered as to him.

At the September, 1931, term,…