State v. Moore

Moss, Chief Justice:

Charles, Carolyn, Donald, Dianne, and David Moore were indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced for the crimes of conspiracy to commit grand larceny and grand larceny, at the 1970 Term of the Court of General Sessions for Rich-land County. The appeal here is from various rulings of the trial judge made during the trial.

When this case was called for trial, the appellants moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the language alleging conspiracy was vague and uncertain. After some argument upon this question, the solicitor announced that in order to save time he…