State v. Laboon
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Smith, J., Anderson, Walter Gaboon and another were convicted of manslaughter, and appeal. cite: Civil Code, sec. 3992; 3 Ene. Ev. 207. Manslaughter a felony: 21 Cyc. 661; 24 S. C. 112, 114; Crim. Code, sec. 148. Felonies disqualify: 15 S. C. 235; 40 Cyc. 2205; 3 Ene.
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Before Smith, J., Anderson, Walter Gaboon and another were convicted of manslaughter, and appeal. cite: Civil Code, sec. 3992; 3 Ene. Ev. 207. Manslaughter a felony: 21 Cyc. 661; 24 S. C. 112, 114; Crim. Code, sec. 148. Felonies disqualify: 15 S. C. 235; 40 Cyc. 2205; 3 Ene. Ev. 204; 48 S. C. 143; 12 S. C. 287. Res gestae: 68 S. C. 310; 83 S. C. 477; 76 S. C. 92; 68 S. C. 277; 56 S. C. 369; 68 S. C. 310. Dying declarations: 104 S. C. 257, 258. cites: As to competency of witness: 48 S. C. 143. Dying declarations: 68 S. C. 277 and 310; 47 S. C. 9; 76 S. C 92; 94 S. C. 92; 104 S. C. 358; 105 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Gary.
The defendants were tried for murder, and convicted of manslaughter.
1, 2 The first question presented by the exceptions is whether there was error on the part of his Honor, the presiding Judge, in overruling the objection of the appellants to the testimony of a witness offered by the State, on the ground that he had been convicted of manslaughter, it being a felony. At common law it was a prerequisite to the disqualification of a witness, on the ground that he had been convicted of an offense, that such offense should be of the…
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