State v. Hann

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice L. D. Dide.

The defendant J. C. Hann, a young white man about 27 years old, employed in a cotton mill at Easley, was indicted at the September, 1939, term of Court of General Sessions for Pickens County upon the charge of murder, and was tried on this indictment at the February, 1940, term of the Court. He was found guilty, and motions for arrest of judgment and for a new trial being overruled, the death sentence was imposed by the presiding Judge; and the case comes before this Court upon the exceptions set forth in the…