Supreme Court of South Carolina· 9/24/1991

State v. Sims

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405 S.E.2d 377
304 S.C. 409

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finding that panicked and hysterical statements made by an eyewitness who met the responding police officer at the crime scene would have qualified as an excited utterance
allowing statements made to police under res gestae exception where the officer had proceeded directly to the scene attack upon it being reported
noting the trial court was \entitled to take into account the countervailing state interest in proceeding on schedule\ and substituting counsel ten days before the trial could have delayed the trial's start
finding the defendant had failed to clearly assert his right to appear pro se because he had given \no indication of a desire to proceed pro se prior to trial\ and had merely requested to have his attorney dismissed
jury charge was found proper where it authorized jury to consider any mitigating evidence presented
jury instructions must be considered as a whole and if as a whole, they are free from error, any isolated portions which might be misleading do not constitute reversible error

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Judges: Harwell, Gregory, Chandler, Finney, Toal

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