Supreme Court of South Carolina September 11, 1908, 7012 (In Re Duncan)

Th-e opinion-of the Court was delivered by

Circuit Judge Memminger,

acting Associate Justice in place of

Mr. Justice Gary,

disqualified.

At the May, 190-6, term -of the Court of General Sessions for Richland

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county, Judge Kl-ugh presiding, Jesse Hunter, a negro, was tried and convicted under a charge of firing upon and wounding one of a magistrate’s posse isent to his house to arrest 'him.