George Sessions, Jr. v. Wyndham Manning, Sr., Superintendent

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a prisoner held in custody under a judgment and sentence of a court of South Carolina. He contends that he was convicted by false testimony and that he was absent from the court room during a portion of the trial. The question with respect to the truthfulness of the testimony upon which he was convicted was not one, however, which he could raise by application for habeas corpus in the court below and the question as to his absence during a portion of his trial was one which was raised upon his appeal from his…