State v. Wade
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before DeVorE, J., Greenville, September term, 1912. Indictment against B. G. Wade and Meta Wade for fornication. Defendants appeal. cite: Confessions inadmissible: 27 S. C. 27; 1 Strob. 156; 3 Ency. 343; 13 S. C. 395; 5 Rich. 399; 15 S. C. 545. Confession of one not admissible against the other: 1 Cyc. 960; 15 S. C. 540; 39 S. C. 57. One may be convicted: 30 S. C. 85; 49 Am. St. R. 208; 109 N. C. 764; 1 Cyc. 958; 41 Am. R. 248, 321.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick. The appellants were tried, in their absence, for fornication. With the exception of certain admissions of the defendant, Meta Wade, proved by the deputy sheriff who executed the warrant of arrest, the evidence was wholly circumstantial. Stated most strongly against the defendants, the substance of it was that B. G. Wade was a widower, whose family consisted of a son and two' daughters. At the time of the trial, the son was nineteen, and the daughters were thirteen and fourteen years old, respectively. He had also1 an older son,…
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