State v. Green
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watt ace, J., Laurens, July, 1893. This was an indictment against Charles Green, George Bowers, and Wade Cannon for the burning of a dwelling house in the night time of July 11,1893. All three were convicted, and Charles Green appealed.
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Before Watt ace, J., Laurens, July, 1893. This was an indictment against Charles Green, George Bowers, and Wade Cannon for the burning of a dwelling house in the night time of July 11,1893. All three were convicted, and Charles Green appealed. A witness on the stand was permitted to prove confessions of George Bowers, after the fire, implicating Green, the judge saying that his testimony would not be evidence against the others unless a conspiracy was established, in which case what one says is the testimony of all. The grounds of appeal were as follows: 1. Because his honor erred in refusing…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The appellant was tried and convicted of the crime of arson at the July term, 1893, of the Court of General Sessions for Laurens County, and after having been duly sentenced, has appealed therefrom. • His grounds of appeal, ten in number, will be set out in the report of the ease, and hence will not be reproduced here. After a careful examination of these suggestions of error, we find that two are well taken, thereby necessitating a new trial in the court below.
1 The first of these is raised by an exception at the trial to the…
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