Busy Oconee Courthouse on Monday

Separate trials are planned today on separate floors of the Oconee County County Courthouse. A one-week term of General Sessions Court has taken over the fourth floor courtroom for the trial of South Carolina versus Billy Whitmire, charged with domestic violence second degree. A floor below, the civil case of Hess v. McGuff and the Oconee Medical Center went into its fifth day in a new setting—one of the two courtrooms on the third floor.