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State v. Cox

Citations

  • 68 S.E.2d 624
  • 221 S.C. 1
  • 1951 S.C. LEXIS 1

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  • holding defendant’s statement, “someone [will] pay for this,” made to a third party after being sentenced to 60 days on chain gang for assault on wife was admissible as a link in chain of evidence to show express malice in subsequent prosecution for murdering wife
  • affirming a conviction in a capital case notwithstanding the fact that the jurors had deliberated only twenty-four minutes and noting, “[T]he fact that the jury stayed out such a short length of time indicated there was unanimity of thought on the facts of the case.”
  • affirming capital conviction when jury deliberated only twenty-four minutes

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Judges: Oxner, Fishburne, Stukes, Baker, Tayeor, Taylor

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