State v. Blakely

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice BeEasE.

The appellant, a negro youth, 16 years of age, while serving a sentence on the Greenville chaingang, killed Mr. D. M. Garret, one of the guards, by hitting Garrett with a shovel. On his trial for murder, in the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County, he was convicted, without recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to death by electrocution.

In the appeal to this Court, there are eight exceptions, all charging error in the matter of instructions given by the presiding Judge to the jury.

We think it only necessary to pass upon…