He was chosen as an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1956.
[2] During that time, he supervised the relocation of the Supreme Court from the South Carolina State House to its current location on Gervais Street.
In 1985, he created controversy by saying "damn niggers" from the bench into a microphone that he may have thought was turned off.
[4] The York County Justice Center was named in his honor[5] over the objections of the NAACP.
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