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FRANKLIN v. SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 164.

218 U.S. 161 (1910)

30 S.Ct. 640

54 L.Ed. 980

FRANKLIN v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jacob Moorer and Mr. John Adams, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte submitted a supplemental brief for plaintiff in error.

Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, and Mr. D.S. Henderson, with whom Mr. C.M. Efird and Mr. B.H. Moss were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, Pink Franklin, a citizen of the negro race, was convicted, in the Court of General Sessions for the county of Orangeburg, South Carolina, of the crime of murder by the shooting of one H.E. Valentine; thereupon he was sentenced to suffer the death penalty, and upon appeal to the Supreme Court of South Carolina the judgment of the Court of General Sessions was affirmed. State v. Franklin...

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