Gilstrap v. State

Moss, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal, in forma pauperis, from an order of the circuit court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the prisoner, Roy Douglas Gilstrap, the appellant herein, to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where he is presently serving a life sentence for murder, which was imposed upon him in Greenville County, on September 9, 1960.

The Grand Jury, at the 1960 September Term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenville County, returned an indictment charging that the appellant did kill and murder, on May 7, 1960, one Clyde David…