Legal Opinion

State v. Brown

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided February 12, 1902PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Before Townsend, J., Union, June term, 1901. Indictment against Frank Brown for violation of dispensary law. From order quashing the indictment the State appeals. cites: 54 S. C., 313; 43 S. C., 108.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Pope.

This appeal is intended to question the legality of the order passed by his Honor, Judge Townsend, while presiding at the June, 1901, term of the Court of General Sessions for Union County, in this State, quashing the indictment presented by the grand jury, wherein the respondent, Frank Brown, was charged with a violation of what is known as the dispensary law of this State, on the single ground that the said Frank Brown was entitled, as a necessary preliminary step to his being indicted for such offense, to have the committing…

2Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. RabensSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1908
  2. State v. WalkerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1958
  3. State v. CrosbySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1917
  4. State v. CrosbySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1917

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