State v. Nash
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Watts, J., Greenville, July, 1897. Indictment against John H. Násh in magistrate court for malicious trespasss. Defendant convicted. Appeals to Circuit Court. Appeal dismissed. He appeals again. cite: Magistrate no jurisdiction when title involved: Con. 1895, sec. 20, art. 5; Code, 36. Defendant only entitled to demand jury: Crim. Stat., 20; Rev. Stat., 885;-Con. 1895, art. 5, sec. 22. Affidavit should not have been amended: Con. 1895, art. 1, sec. 16; Crim.
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Before Watts, J., Greenville, July, 1897. Indictment against John H. Násh in magistrate court for malicious trespasss. Defendant convicted. Appeals to Circuit Court. Appeal dismissed. He appeals again. cite: Magistrate no jurisdiction when title involved: Con. 1895, sec. 20, art. 5; Code, 36. Defendant only entitled to demand jury: Crim. Stat., 20; Rev. Stat., 885;-Con. 1895, art. 5, sec. 22. Affidavit should not have been amended: Con. 1895, art. 1, sec. 16; Crim. Stat., 19; 9 S. C., 309. Oral argument.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The defendant was convicted of the misdemeanor of malicious trespass before W. H. Britt, Fsq., a magistrate for Fairview Township, in Greenville County, in this State, on the 10th day of June, A. D. 1897, and after being sentenced to pay a fine of $50, or in lieu thereof to be imprisoned in the county jail for twenty days, he appealed from such judgment. His appeal came on to be heard before Judge Watts in the Circuit Court for Green-ville County on the 29th July, 1897, and after reducing the fine from $50 to $20, the said Circuit…
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