State v. Patterson

Littlejohn, Justice:

Cynthia Patterson and John Eddie Brooks were tried and convicted upon an indictment which charged them with violation of § 16-302 of the Code of Laws oj South Carolina (1962). This section makes it unlawful to possess certain tools commonly employed' in the commission of certain crimes. The tools named in the indictment were “preprinted checks, I.D. cards and credit cqrds”, all of which were alleged to be. false, fictitious or the property of another and alleged to be implements and things adapted, designed and commonly used for the commission of forgery.

Upon the call of…