State v. Easterlin
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Orangeburg. Indictment in magistrate court against Easter Easterlin for violation of verbal farm labor contract, firom judgment of Sessions Court affirming that of magistrate court, the defendant appeals. cites: Where there are separate magisterial districts, cases must be tried where offense committed: Con., art. V., sec. 23, 22 Stat., 473. Orangeburg County is divided into such districts: 22 Stat., 474, 480; Rev. Stat., p. 291. Nothing is presumed in a…
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Before Watts, J., Orangeburg. Indictment in magistrate court against Easter Easterlin for violation of verbal farm labor contract, firom judgment of Sessions Court affirming that of magistrate court, the defendant appeals. cites: Where there are separate magisterial districts, cases must be tried where offense committed: Con., art. V., sec. 23, 22 Stat., 473. Orangeburg County is divided into such districts: 22 Stat., 474, 480; Rev. Stat., p. 291. Nothing is presumed in a limited jurisdiction: 17 A. & E-, 2d ed-., 1073, 1082; 51 S. C., 342; 1 Bail R., 459; 2 Bail., 267; Chev., 6; 20 S. C.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The defendant was prosecuted before Magistrate Pou, in Orangeburg County, for violation of a verbal farm labor contract, under the act of 1897, and was found guilty by the jury and sentenced. On appeal to the Circuit Court, the judgment of the magistrate was affirmed. The exceptions to this Court are as follows :
“1. It was error to allow the prosecuting witnesses and the contractee to testify as to the terms of the alleged contract, because the statute provides a mode for proof of such contracts.
“2. It was error to allow the contract…
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