State v. O'Day
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before O. W. Buchanan, special Judge, Lancaster, October, 1905. Indictment against Charles O’Day and John Fisher for safe cracking. From sentence on verdict, defendants appeal. cite: 68 S. C., 148; 36 S. E., 232; 22 S. E., 57; 17 S. E., 1004; 13 S. E., 596; 51 S. C., 247; 16 S, C., 47. cites: 16 S. C., 47; 23 S'. C., 427; 30 S. C., 9; 39 S'. C., 317.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The appellants were indicted under the act entitled “An Act to' provide punishment for safe crackers,” approved February 19, 1904, 24 Stat., 396. The jury found them guilty with a recommendation to' mercy, and they were sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for fifteen years. Both- in a motion tO' direct a verdict of not guilty and in a motion for a new trial appellants contended that the act of 1904, supra, violates sec. 17, art. III., of the Constitution, in that the subject of the act is not expressed in its…
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