Sanders v. Leeke

Moss, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal, in forma pauperis, from an order of the Circuit Court dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the prisoner, Albert Sanders, the appellant herein, to the custody of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, where he is presently serving a sentence of fifty years, imposed upon him in Marion County, on February 22, 1967.

The grand jury of Marion County, at the 1965 October Term of the Court of General Sessions, by separate indictments, charged the appellant with the murder of Carrie Nichols Evans and Mert Evans, such being his mother-in-law and…