State v. Sanders

Stukes, Justice.

The eighteen-year-old appellant and Frank K. Boulware, fourteen, were jointly indicted for the murder of one Jim Sterling who was eighty-four years old and lived alone in a rural section of Fairfield county — all Negroes. At the trial the defendants were separately represented and after two State’s witnesses had testified the Solicitor agreed with counsel for Boulware upon a verdict as to him of guilty with recommendation to mercy; and that defendant later testified for the State. Both defendants had formerly confessed and were then in agreement that appellant struck the fatal…