Thompson v. State

Moss, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of The Honorable John Grimball, Resident Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, discharging a writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant is an inmate of the South Carolina Penitentiary, serving a life sentence imposed upon him by The Honorable Steve C. Griffith, Presiding Judge, at the 1964 September term of the Court of General Sessions for Fair-field County, after the appellant pled guilty to an indictment that charged him with murder. The appellant not only signed a plea of guilty to murder with a recommendation to the mercy of the court but a…