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STATE v. RIDDLE

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291 S.C. 232 (1987)

353 S.E.2d 138

The STATE, Respondent v. Ernest M. RIDDLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided February 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David I. Bruck, and S.C. Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, and Kenneth M. Holland, and Arthur L. Shemwell, Gaffney, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., and William Edgar Salter, III, Columbia, and Solicitor Holman C. Gossett, Jr., Spartanburg, for respondent.

Heard December 8, 1986.

Decided February 2, 1987.

Per Curiam:

Appellant Ernest M. Riddle (Riddle) was convicted of murder, burglary and armed robbery. He was sentenced to death for murder, to life imprisonment for burglary and to 25 years for armed robbery.

This case consolidates Riddle's appeal and our mandatory review of the death sentence pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-25 (1985). We affirm the convictions, reverse the sentence...

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