State v. Patton
Supreme Court of South Carolina
1Opinion of the Court
Burnett, Justice:
Appellant was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of second-degree arson. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murder counts and twenty-years for the arson count. We affirm.
*410FACTS
On July 26, 1992, Appellant shot and killed his estranged wife, Sharon Patton, and their eleven-year-old daughter, Kimberly, in Sharon’s mobile home. He then set fire to a building behind the mobile home.
At the beginning of the trial, Appellant made a motion to suppress all evidence seized from the property on the ground that the search and seizure were conducted in…
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