State v. Blanden

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

The defendant, D. M. Blanden, having been indicted, tried, and convicted in the Court of General Sessions in Spartanburg County, this State, for the murder of one, Ben Sims, from the rulings, verdict, judgment, and sentence of death by electrocution and from the Court’s refusal to grant a new trial, has appealed to this Court imputing error to the trial Judge in the particulars hereinafter mentioned.

As shown by the record in the case, Ben Sims, a resident of the City of Spartanburg, was killed about midnight on the 2d or 3d of July,…