State v. Workman
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before HudsoN, J., Newberry, February, 1881. This was an indictment against Isom Workman and John P. í?atterwhite. The report of the presiding judge is as follows: The defendants were jointly indicted under Chapter CXXIX., Section 4, page 714, General Statutes. Upon their arraignment they claimed the right of twenty peremptory challenges each to the jurors. This I refused, and held them each entitled only to five peremptory challenges.
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Before HudsoN, J., Newberry, February, 1881. This was an indictment against Isom Workman and John P. í?atterwhite. The report of the presiding judge is as follows: The defendants were jointly indicted under Chapter CXXIX., Section 4, page 714, General Statutes. Upon their arraignment they claimed the right of twenty peremptory challenges each to the jurors. This I refused, and held them each entitled only to five peremptory challenges. The law clearly defines in what felonies the accused shall have the incidents of arraignments and the right to twenty peremptory challenges, and expressly…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
McIver, A. J.
In this case the defendants were indicted and fried jointly for burning a frame of timber prepared for making ■a house, which is made a felony by Section 4, Chapter CXXIX., 'General Statutes, page 714. Upon their arraignment they each •claimed the right to challenge, peremptorily, twenty of the jurors presented, but the Circuit judge held that they were each only •entitled to five peremptory challenges, and this presents the first •question raised by this appeal.
It is very clear that the prisoners were properly restricted to *544five…
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