Malloy v. South Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA. The facts, which involve the constitutionality under the ex- post facto provision of the Federal Constitution of the law of South Carolina relating to punishment for murder and altering of place and method of execution of the death sentence, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mbi Justice McReynolds
delivered the opinion of the court.
At the summer term, 1912, Court of General Sessions,. Marlboro County, South Carolina, Joe Malloy was found guilty without a recommendation to mercy under an indictment charging him with the murder of Moore, November 24, 1910, and sentenced to death by electrocution in conformity to the Act of the Legislature approved February 17,1912‘(S. Car. Statutes at Large, 1912, p. 702), the pertinent portions of which are in the margin. 1 The judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State (95 S. Car. 441); the cause is here by writ of…
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