State v. Givens
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Wilson, J., Charleston, June term, 1910. Indictment against Mary Givens for housebreaking and larceny. .From sentence on verdict of guilty, defendant appeals. cites: Second count cannot be supplemented by allegations in the. first: 45 S. C. 488; Pom.
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Before Wilson, J., Charleston, June term, 1910. Indictment against Mary Givens for housebreaking and larceny. .From sentence on verdict of guilty, defendant appeals. cites: Second count cannot be supplemented by allegations in the. first: 45 S. C. 488; Pom. Rem. sec. 275. There was no evidence of a crime: 45 S. C. 490; 85 S. C. 277. Offer to pay for shoes improperly admitted: 54 S. C. 104; 45 S. C. 184. There being no housebreaking there was no compound crime: 45 S. C. 488. Charge as to presumption from possession of stolen property is on facts: '85 S. C. 276, 282; 28 S. C. 253; 47 S. C.-513.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
There is no ground whatever for this appeal. The defendant was convicted under an indictment containing a count for breaking into the dwelling house of R. F. Fields, with intent to steal, take and carry away the goods of Belle Fields, and a count for stealing from the dwelling house of R. F. Fields a pair of shoes, a bracelet and a finger ring of the value of eight dollars, the property of Belle Fields. There was a general verdict of guilty.
The position that the second count charges no offense unless it be supplemented by the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. GarvinSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1897
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