State v. Trent

234 S.C. 26 (1959)

106 S.E.2d 527

STATE, Respondent,

v.

Tillman TRENT, Appellant.

17489

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

January 13, 1959.

Messrs. Thomas W. Whiteside and T. Louis Cox, of Spartanburg, for Appellant.

Messrs. J. Allen Lambright, Solicitor, and J. Wright Nash, Assistant Solicitor, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.

January 13, 1959.

OXNER, Justice.

At about eleven o'clock on the morning of July 12, 1957 appellant, Tilman Trent, killed Alton Otis Goode with a shotgun. He was tried in October, 1957 and found guilty of murder. The jury recommended mercy and appellant was sentenced to imprisonment…