State v. McGraw
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an appeal by Thomas McGraw from a sentence of the court on his conviction of assault and battery with intent to kill. The jury retired to .their room to consider their verdict on the evening of February 19, and defendant was taken from the court room, and was not brought in again until next morning, some time after court had convened and only a few moments before the jury returned into court with their verdict.
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This was an appeal by Thomas McGraw from a sentence of the court on his conviction of assault and battery with intent to kill. The jury retired to .their room to consider their verdict on the evening of February 19, and defendant was taken from the court room, and was not brought in again until next morning, some time after court had convened and only a few moments before the jury returned into court with their verdict. During much of this time the defendant’s counsel were not in the court room, but knew that court was in session. The judge charged the jury as follows: Gentlemen of the Jury :…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mu. Justice McGowan.
The defendant was indicted for an assault and battery with intent to kill, and tried at the February *287term, 1890, for Fairfield County, and found “guilty.” Upon empanelling the jury, counsel for the defendant entered a challenge to the whole array of grand, and petit jurors, and moved to quash the panels for alleged defects and irregularities in the venires, in .the service thereof, and in the return of the sheriff thereon, viz.: I. The venire of the petit jury. “1. Did not contain the names of 36 good and lawful men as required by…
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