Legal Opinion
Tillman v. Manning
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided October 23, 1962No. 17976PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Moss, Justice.
Clearence E. Tillman, the appellant herein, is presently-confined in the State Penitentiary, where he is serving a life sentence which was imposed, upon a plea of guilty to murder, by the Court of General Sessions for Lexington County, South Carolina, on May 26, 1960.
On October 2, 1961, the appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacking the validity of his detention in said State penitentiary. The Honorable John Grimball, Resident Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, dismissed the said petition without a hearing on the ground that the petition failed to set…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Walker v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Waley v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Hawk v. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Cash v. CulverSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Crosby v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1962
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Gibson v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1998
- Tillman v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1964
- Blandshaw v. StateSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1965
- Welch v. MacDougallSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1965