Bettis v. Busbee

Goolsby, Judge:

The appellant Frances Bettis appeals from the order of the circuit judge denying her a new trial based upon after-discovered evidence. Bettis allegedly discovered the evidence after the circuit judge entered a judgment confirming the findings of the master-in-equity and accepting his recommendation that alcoholic liquors and beverages seized during a search of Bettis’s home by officers under the discretion of the respondent J. Carroll Busbee, Director of the Aiken County Department of Public Safety, be sold at public auction. The evidence that Bettis allegedly discovered after…