State v. Goodwin

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

The defendant was tried upon an indictment charging, him with the murder of Jacob Carter, at the latter’s home in Bamberg County, on June 24, 1921. The trial was had at Bamberg before Hon. Robert Tide, Special Judge, at a term not stated in the record for appeal, and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter, upon which the defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 years.

The evidence for the State was largely, if not wholly, circumstantial. The defendant relied upon his plea of not guilty and upon the special plea of alibi.

The…