State v. George

Griffith, Acting Associate Justice.

The defendant-appellant appeals from a conviction and sentence under an indictment charging him with maintaining a public nuisance in the Town of Fort Lawn, Chester County, South Carolina.

The first exception alleges error in refusing defendant’s motion for a directed verdict of not guilty, based upon the ground that the evidence, as a matter of law, did. not establish the crime charged.

The evidence relied upon by the State tended to show that about one year prior to the trial the defendant opened his place of business in a thickly settled, residential…