Thursday, February 8, 2007

Florence, South Carolina

From Florence’s MorningNewsOnline.com of February 8, 2007
Garden City Man Found Not Guilty

After nearly 12 hours of deliberation a jury found a Horry County man not guilty of murder.

Police say 76-year-old Henry Bramlett shot his neighbor, Robert Tomlinson, more than a dozen times after a property line dispute.

But prosecutors say the evidence solicited to the character of the victim showed he wasn’t a good neighbor in the minds of jurors.

Defense attorney Morgan Martin told the jury his client acted in self-defense.

The shooting happened in August of 2005 off Stanley Drive in Garden City. Bramlett was facing life in prison with no chance at parole. Today he is a free man.

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