State v. McDuffie

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Gary.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Court of General Sessions for the County of Edgefield, in the State aforesaid, for manufacturing alcoholic liquors in violation of the laws of South Carolina, and was sentenced by the Court to the penitentiary or the county chain gang, for a period of one year. From the said sentence he appealed to this Court.

The first exception is as follows :

“First, (a) Because'his Honor erred in overruling defendant’s demurrer to the indictment, made at the call of the case for trial,…