State v. Anderson
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Greenwood, August, 1900. Indictment against William Anderson for stealing a cow valued at $15. From judgment in Sessions Court, defendant appeals. cite: As to challenges: 30 S. C., 69. As to the establishing of the defense of alibi: 18 S. C., 520; 36 S. C., 487.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The defendant was convicted under an indictment for larceny of live stock, a cow, alleged to be of the value of $15.
1 1. The State, over defendant’s objections, was allowed five peremptory challenges to jurors, and this ruling is excepted to as error. We think the Circuit Court erred herein. The right to exercise peremptory challenges to jurors is regulated by statute appearing as section 54 of the Criminal Statutes, which allows the State not exceeding five such challenges in cases wherein any person is arraigned for murder,…
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