Town Council of Chesterfield v. Ratliff
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Klugh, J., Chesterfield, July, 1897. Prosecution by the town council of Chesterfield v. W. M. Ratliff and D. H. Laney, for violating town ordinance against shooting. Defendants convicted, and appeal to the Circuit Court. New trial granted.
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Before Klugh, J., Chesterfield, July, 1897. Prosecution by the town council of Chesterfield v. W. M. Ratliff and D. H. Laney, for violating town ordinance against shooting. Defendants convicted, and appeal to the Circuit Court. New trial granted. Town council appeals. cites: Ordinance being written instrument nvust be construed by Court: 3 S. C., 253; 15 S.’C., 32; 17 S. C., 480; 10 S. C., 124; 15 S. C., 296. Error in charge immaterial when afterwards corrected: 18 S. C., 113. Expression of opinion in charge here coitld not prepidice defendant: 35 S. C., 538. cite: Reasonable excuse is a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
The defendants were prosecuted before the town council of Chesterfield for the violation of an ordinance of said town, forbidding the shooting of firearms anywhere within the corporate limits of the town without a reasonable excuse for doing so. Upon their trial they demanded a jury, which was accorded them. Evidence was offered on the part of the prosecution tending to show that the defendants had fired — one a pistol and the other an ordinary shotgun — within the corporate limits of the town; but when the defendants offered…
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