State v. White

Moss, Chief Justice.

The appellant, Clarence White, Jr., was tried in the Court of General Sessions for Sumter County, under an indictment charging him with the murder of Thomas Wright, on January 7, 1967. The appellant was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months.

The appellant was initially charged with murder but at the close of all of the testimony, the trial judge submitted to the jury only the question of whether the appellant was guilty or not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. We quote the following from the charge:

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