State v. Williams
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Aiken, Winter Term, 1906. Indictment against Fred Dunbar and Jim Williams for the murder of E. H. Fisher. James Williams was tried alone and convicted, and appeals from sentence. Mr. Rice cites: No magistrate has authority to issue zvarrant except on oath, made to the facts: Con. 1895, art. I., sec. 16; Crim. Code, sec. 35; 9 S. C., 309; 51 S. C., 54. State v. Harley, 2 Strob.
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Before Watts, J., Aiken, Winter Term, 1906. Indictment against Fred Dunbar and Jim Williams for the murder of E. H. Fisher. James Williams was tried alone and convicted, and appeals from sentence. Mr. Rice cites: No magistrate has authority to issue zvarrant except on oath, made to the facts: Con. 1895, art. I., sec. 16; Crim. Code, sec. 35; 9 S. C., 309; 51 S. C., 54. State v. Harley, 2 Strob. What is an affidavit? 39 S. C., 409; 45 S. C., 69; 1 Cyc., vol. 4. Legality of the warrant zúas a material question: Bishop on Crim. Proc., sec. 191. It was for the jury to say if the warrant had been…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice AVoods.
The defendant, James AVilliams, was convicted at the winter term' of the Court of General Sessions for Aiken County of the murder of E. H. Fisher. Fred Dunbar, who was jointly charged in the same indictment, being at the time a fugitive from justice, was not put on trial. AVilliams appeals to this Court, charging error in the refusal of the motion for continuance, in the admission of evidence, in the charge to the jury, and in the refusal to order a new trial. The alleged excited state of the public mind' at the time of the trial has…
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