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MOORER v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Civ. A. No. AC-1583.

239 F.Supp. 180 (1965)

Louis MOORER, Petitioner, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA and Ellis C. MacDougall, Director, South Carolina State Board of Corrections, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

March 12, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Columbia, S. C., F. Henderson Moore, and Benjamin L. Cook, Jr., Charleston, S. C., for petitioner.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. for State of South Carolina and Edward B. Latimer, Asst. Atty. Gen. for State of South Carolina, for respondents.

HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.

Petitioner Louis Moorer applied to this Court for a Stay of Execution and for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, he at the time awaiting death by electrocution pursuant to sentence imposed upon him by the Court of General Sessions for Dorchester County, South Carolina, on April 4, 1962.1 The requested Stay of Execution was granted in accordance with Title 28 U.S.C. § 2251 and a hearing scheduled and had on the application...

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