State v. Corn

Baker, Chief Justice.

At the December,- 1948, term of the Court of General Sessions for York County, the appellant was tried and convicted of, on June 5, 1948, murdering by shooting, his employer, George C. Beam, Jr. Following his conviction, without recommendation to mercy, and the refusal of a motion for a new trial, appellant was sentenced by the trial Judge to death by electrocution.

The appeal raises the issues that the trial Judge erred, (1) in refusing the motion of the appellant for a directed ver- diet of not guilty, (2) in failing to exclude hearsay evidence to which timely objection…