Legal Opinion

State v. Cooler

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided February 8, 1889PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Before Aldrich, J., Beaufort, February, 1888. The opinion fully states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McIver.

The appellant was convicted in the Court of Sessions of petit larceny, alleged to have been committed on the 5th day of November, 1886, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, at hard labor, for the term of one year. The prosecution was commenced on the 7th of June, 1887, and the true bill was found at September term, 1887, but the trial was had at February term, 1888, after the passage of the act of December 28, 1887 (19 Stat., 819), amending the law in respect to the punishment of the offence of petit larceny,…

2Cited by10 opinions

  1. Lovely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1949
  2. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1923
  3. State v. VarnerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1992
  4. United States ex rel. De Vita v. McCorkleDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1955
  5. State v. DawsonSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2013

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