Legal Opinion
State v. Bowers
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided January 30, 1978No. 20591PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rhodes, Justice:
This appeal is from convictions for contempt of court on two charges of jury tampering. The trial court imposed a sentence of thirty (30) days imprisonment in the Aiken County Jail on each of the two charges to be served consecutively. We affirm.
On June 22, 1976, the Honorable Rodney A. Peeples, Resident Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, while presiding over a term of General Sessions Court in Aiken County, inquired of the jury panel as to whether any of them had been contacted concerning the case of State v. Cleo Scott, which trial was being commenced at such time. In…
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- State v. MaddoxSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
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