State v. Little

At the September, 1951, term of the Court of General Sessions for Charleston County, the appellants, James Little, Peter Nathaniel Short and Leon Brock, along with Theodore Failey and Monroe Richardson (the last named two not appealing), were tried on an indictment charging them with the murder of Horace C. Wilhelm, a salesman and collector for Rhodes Furniture Company. Mr. Wilhelm was murdered in the late afternoon of February 20, 1951, which date was on a Tuesday. Due to his tender years, Richardson was tried separately, that is, as to him, a jury was impaneled and rendered a consent…