State v. Hart
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wirson, J., Marlboro, March term, 1912. Indictment against Alfred Hart. Defendant appeals. Evidence as to closing house on the particular night is incompetent: 61 S. C. 12.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods. The defendant was convicted of housebreaking and petit larceny, the charge being that he broke and entered the cotton seed house of C. P. Hodges and stole cotton seed therefrom. The case contains this agreed statement: “Mr. C. P. Hodges owned a cotton seed house in Marlboro county. About six or eight feet from the ground was an opening through which cotton seed from the wagons was pitched into the house. The doors of the seed house were locked the evening before, and were found locked the following- morning. This opening was about…
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