State v. Singleton

Harwell, Justice:

The Appellant Fred Singleton was convicted of murder, burglary, larceny, grand larceny of a motor vehicle, and criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. The trial judge sentenced him to death upon the recommendation of the jury. This case consolidates Singleton’s direct appeal and mandatory review of the death sentence pursuant to S. C. Code Ann. § 16-3-25 (1983 Cum. Supp.). We affirm.

On September 9,1982, two sisters and a niece of 73 year old widow Mrs. Elizabeth Sease Lominick found her body in the bedroom of her Newberry County home, strangled with a bedsheet. The…