State v. Mulwee
Supreme Court of South Carolina
State v. Mulwee, 77 S.E. 1027 (S.C. 1913)
94 S.C. 323; 1913 S.C. LEXIS 151
Hydrick
State v. Mulwee
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Defendant appealed from sentence of death by electrocution, upon conviction of murder. The first ground taken is ruled by Malloy’s case, 95 S. C. The only other ground is that the Court erred in explaining- to the jury the difference between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. The defendant having been convicted of murder, the error was immaterial.
Affirmed.
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- State v. Mulwee.
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- Syllabus
- 1. Conditional Law — Ex Post Facto — Capital Punisiment. — The act providing- death by electrocution in capital cases is not an etc post facto law when applied to a case of homicide committed before the passage of the act. ■2. Appeal — Murder.—An error in instructing- the jury as to the difference between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, is immaterial in a conviction for 'murder.