State v. Rabens
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Oconee, spring term, 1907. Indictment against H. Rudolph Rabens for knowingly receiving stolen money. From sentence on verdict of guilty, defendant appeals. Mr. Logan cites: Right of accused to preliminary examination: 40 S. C., 555. A defendant should not be tried in his absence when his punishment is imprisonment: 6 Ency., 998; 1 Cust., 433; 1 Bis'h. New Crim.
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Before Gary, J., Oconee, spring term, 1907. Indictment against H. Rudolph Rabens for knowingly receiving stolen money. From sentence on verdict of guilty, defendant appeals. Mr. Logan cites: Right of accused to preliminary examination: 40 S. C., 555. A defendant should not be tried in his absence when his punishment is imprisonment: 6 Ency., 998; 1 Cust., 433; 1 Bis'h. New Crim. Prac., 175; 19 Ark., 214; 33 Ky., 84; 25 Vt., 93; 67 Me., 423; 42 W. Va., 246; 40 S. C., 549, 553> 555. Criticism of Judge of argument of counsel error: 16 S. C., 453; 52 S. C., 480; 77 S. C., 405. Comment by Judge…
1Opinion of the Court
April 8, 1908. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The count of the indictment on which H. Rudolph Rabens was tried and convicted in his absence, charged him with the misdemeanor of receiving, with guilty knowledge, from James Johnson, John Fisher and John F. McCarthy, $8,338.81, stolen by them from the safe of the Courtenay Manufacturing Company. His counsel, earnestly contending that he has not had a fair trial according to law, attack almost every step in the proceedings. The objections to the regularity of the proceedings before trial were made by motion to quash the indictment, on…
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