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QUILLIEN v. LEEKE

Civ. A. No. 69-475.

303 F.Supp. 698 (1969)

Lowman QUILLIEN, Petitioner, v. William D. LEEKE, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents.

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

September 5, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert M. Meeting, Columbia, S. C., Court-appointed attorney, for petitioner.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., Emmet H. Clair, Robert H. Hood, Asst. Attys. Gen., all of Columbia, S. C., for respondents.

OPINION AND ORDER

DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.

This is a petition in habeas corpus by a state prisoner who had consented to a jury verdict of guilty of an assault with intent to ravish with recommendation to mercy in the General Sessions Court of Richland County, South Carolina. Under the terms of Section 16-72, Code of South Carolina (1962), the penalty for such crime is fixed at "death unless the...

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