State v. Jones
Decision Date | 22 December 1919 |
Docket Number | (No. 10307.) |
Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Parties | STATE. v. JONES. |
Appeal from General Sessions Circuit Court of Aiken County; H. S. Rice, Judge.
Shuler Jones was convicted of murder, and appeals. Affirmed.
T. G. Croft and D. W. Gaston, Jr., both of Aiken, for appellant.
Robt. L. Gunter, Sol., and J. E. Stansfield, both of Aiken, for the State.
The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder, with a recommendation to mercy, at the May term of Court, 1919, for Aiken county, before Judge Rice and a jury. After sentence defendant appeals. The appeal complains of error on the part of the circuit judge in his supplementary instructions when the jury requested further instruction.
The instruction complained of is this:
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