State v. Marlowe
| Decision Date | 05 July 1922 |
| Docket Number | 10939. |
| Citation | 112 S.E. 921,120 S.C. 205 |
| Parties | STATE v. MARLOWE. |
| Court | South Carolina Supreme Court |
Appeal from General Sessions Circuit Court of Greenville County; R Withers Memminger, Judge.
J. C Marlowe was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. Reversed.
Bonham & Price, of Greenville, for appellant.
D. W Smoak, Sol., of Greenville, for the State.
The appellant was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter. There was testimony tending to show that the appellant and the deceased were playing cards in a small room in the Elks' Club in Greenville. The appellant was a member of the club, and the deceased was not. How the deceased obtained admittance to the rooms of the club is not stated. The parties became involved in a personal difficulty. The appellant testified that the deceased struck him with a chair and seriously injured him, and was in the act of striking him again when he fired the fatal shot.
I. The first assignment of error was a charge that the presiding judge made to the jury in a previous case, some of the persons who served in the previous case were serving as jurors in this case. We have been cited to no authority and we know of none that holds that an erroneous charge in one case can be held to be error in another case, and these exceptions are overruled.
II. The next assignment of error is that his honor erred in excusing a juror after he had been accepted by both the state and the defendant. The juror asked to be excused on account of sickness. The appellant consented to allow the juror to be excused, and it is now too late to complain.
III. The next assignment of error is in allowing the solicitor to ask the defendant as to his association with Villa and others. The only purpose of this evidence was to discredit the defendant. The defendant did not put his character in issue, and it was clearly incompetent and prejudicial. The exceptions that raise this question are sustained.
IV. The next assignment of error is that his honor erred in refusing the charge:
"The seventh request of the defendant is as follows: 'The law of retreat in self-defense has no application where one is on his own premises, and the jury is charged that, where a member of a club is in the club rooms and the rooms are owned by the club, the law of retreat does not apply to such a club member when attacked by another in the club rooms.' "
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