Legal Opinion
Thompson v. MacDougall
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided September 8, 1967No. Civ. A. No. 67-334PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
*314ORDER
DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.
Indicted for murder in the Court of General Sessions of Fairfield County, South Carolina, the petitioner, at the urgent insistence of his retained counsel, entered at the September, 1964, term of such Court a plea of guilty, with recommendation to mercy, upon the conclusion of the prosecution’s case and without offering any evidence on his own behalf. As a result of such plea, he was .sentenced by the Court to life imprisonment and was promptly transferred to the state penitentiary for the service of such sentence.
In March, 1965, he filed in the State Court…
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