State v. Anderson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

At the 1936 February term of the Court of General Sessions for Anderson County, the appellants were convicted of the murder of one W. A. Daniel, a taxicab driver, and sentenced to death by electrocution.

The undisputed facts regarding the killing show that a cold-blooded and brutal murder was planned and carried into execution, the only motive therefor being that the appellants desired the possession and use of an automobile. A detail statement of the gruesome facts surrounding the killing is unnecessary to a decision of the case, and…