State v. Adams
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Spartanburg. Indictment against Alfred Adams and Arch Young for handling and hauling liquors. The defendants made the following requests to charge: 1st. Under section 33 of the act known as the dispensary law, it is a crime to bring liquor into the State, or transport it from place to place within this State, by wagon, cart or otherwise, punishable in the magistrate’s court, and the Court of Sessions cannot try or punish a defendant for bringing liquor…
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Before Townsend, J., Spartanburg. Indictment against Alfred Adams and Arch Young for handling and hauling liquors. The defendants made the following requests to charge: 1st. Under section 33 of the act known as the dispensary law, it is a crime to bring liquor into the State, or transport it from place to place within this State, by wagon, cart or otherwise, punishable in the magistrate’s court, and the Court of Sessions cannot try or punish a defendant for bringing liquor into the State, or transporting it from place to place within the State. 2d. That if the jury are satisfied that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The following statement is extracted from the “Case:” “The appellant and one Arch. Young were indicted jointly for violation of the dispensary law. The indictment contained one count, the language thereof, omitting the formal parts, was as follows: ‘Did willfully and unlawfully handle and deliver certain contraband liquors, to wit: about sixty gallons of corn whiskey, contrary to the form of the statute, &c.’ The proof on the part of the State was, that the appellant and Arch. Young were arrested on the morning of the 19th of December,…
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- State v. MorelliSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1917