State v. Rector

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabeer.

About midnight on June 11, 1927, Captain Sam D. Willis, sheriff of Greenville County, was shot and killed in front of his garage at his home in the City of Greenville. The killing, as disclosed by the facts, was brutal and coldblooded. Subsequent investigations, which resulted in the trial of two persons, who, however, were acquitted finally, led to the arrest of a negro by the name of Blair Rook, who confessed that he went to the home of the sheriff at a late hour on the night named and concealed himself between a wire fence and…