Case Name: Sidney C. OWEN, Respondent, v. STATE of South Carolina et al., Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1966-07-28
Citations: 248 S.C. 233
Docket Number: 18543
Parties: Sidney C. OWEN, Respondent, v. STATE of South Carolina et al., Appellants
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 233–235

Head Matter:
18543
Sidney C. OWEN, Respondent, v. STATE of South Carolina et al., Appellants
(149 S. E. (2d) 600)
Messrs. Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General, and Edward B. Latimer, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Appellants,
S. Augustus Black, Esq., of Columbia, for Respondent,
July 28, 1966.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This case is controlled by our decision in Dukes v. State, S. C., 149 S. E. (2d) 598 filed contemporaneously herewith. The two cases are concerned with the same indictment and raise the same single issue; they differ only in that they have arrived here via different routes. In the Dukes case, appeal was from a resentence; in this, appeal is by the State from an order of the Honorable John Grimball, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, in habeas corpus, construing the indictment as having charged highway robbery, not armed robbery, holding that the petitioner, Owen, had served the maximum period of confinement provided by law, and ordering him discharged from custody under sentence for that charge.
For the reasons stated in Duke v. State, supra, the judgment is reversed.