Supreme Court of South Carolina· 3/25/1985

State v. Norris

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328 S.E.2d 339
285 S.C. 86
1985 S.C. LEXIS 356

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vacating defendant’s death penalty based on erroneous admission of prior second-degree murder conviction under Virginia statute that did not require mental state of malice and therefore did not qualify as aggravating factor under South Carolina law
vacating defendant's death penalty based on erroneous admission of prior second-degree murder conviction under Virginia statute that did not require mental state of malice and therefore did not qualify as aggravating factor under South Carolina law
setting forth an example of a proper jury instruction on the felony murder rule
finding no error with the instruction telling the jury it could infer malice
overruled on other grounds by State v. Torrence, 305 S.C. 45, 406 S.E.2d 315 (1991)
a charge that the jury could, but did not have to, infer malice could not reasonably have been understood by the jury as an instruction that the burden of proof would be shifted to the defendant

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Judges: Chandler, Littlejohn, Ness, Gregory-, Harwell

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