State v. Osborne

Mr. Associate Justice Baker

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court:

At the September, 1942, term of the Court of General Sessions for Barnwell County, the appellant was placed on trial for the second time on an indictment duly found by a grand jury of said county, charging him with the murder of one W. P. Walker on the 17th day of August, 1941. The appellant was first tried on this charge at the September, 1941, term of the Court of General Sessions for Barnwell County, was by a petit jury found guilty of murder without recommendation to mercy, and was sentenced by the presiding Judge to…