State v. Boone

T. B. Greneker, Acting Associate Justice.

The appellant Henry Lee Boone was tried before Honorable E. H. Henderson and a jury at the November, 1954 term of the General Sessions Court for Cherokee county and was convicted of murder, after a trial lasting two days. No mercy was recommended. From that conviction and sentence of death he now comes to this court. Motions were made for the direction of a verdict of not guilty and for a new trial, both of which were refused, and it is therefore necessary to review the evidence.

The exceptions as set out in the transcript of record are as follows:

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