State v. Edwards

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Beease.

The appellants were convicted, in the Court of General Sessions of Anderson County, of the crime of statutory arson, with a recommendation by the jury to the mercy of the Court, and the presiding Judge, his Honor, Circuit Judge Greene, sentenced each of them to a term of six years at hard labor on the chaingang of Anderson County, or in the State penitentiary.

In the appeal, there are nine exceptions. The last of these, relating to the receipt of certain testimony of Sheriff Clamp, as a witness for the State in reply, has not…