State v. Weaver
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Edgefield. Indictment for house breaking and larceny against Ed Weaver, Abner Harris and Allen Jones. Erom judgment and sentence on verdict, defendants appeal on following exceptions : “I. Excepts because the presiding Judge erred in ruling: ‘That any man under sixty-five and over twenty-one who has a registration certificate is a qualified and competent juror, and it does not make any difference whether he has paid his poll tax or not’ “II.
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Before Watts, J., Edgefield. Indictment for house breaking and larceny against Ed Weaver, Abner Harris and Allen Jones. Erom judgment and sentence on verdict, defendants appeal on following exceptions : “I. Excepts because the presiding Judge erred in ruling: ‘That any man under sixty-five and over twenty-one who has a registration certificate is a qualified and competent juror, and it does not make any difference whether he has paid his poll tax or not’ “II. That his Honor erred in ruling that ‘if he has got his registration certificate, that is prima facie and satisfactory evidence to me…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
These defendants were indicted for and convicted of “housebreaking and larceny,” and from the judgment entered, they appeal to this Court, upon the several exceptions set out in the record, which should be incorporated by the reporter in his report of the case.
The first, second and third exceptions impute error to the Circuit Judge in certain rulings made by him as to the qualification of certain jurors presented to the prisoners, while the jury was being empanelled; while the fourth exception imputes error in ruling out…
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