Kershaw County v. Richland County
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Richland, November, 1900. Claim by Kershaw County against Richland County for costs and expenses of trial of W. R. Crawford, charged with murder. Venue changed to Kershaw County from Rich-land County.
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Before Townsend, J., Richland, November, 1900. Claim by Kershaw County against Richland County for costs and expenses of trial of W. R. Crawford, charged with murder. Venue changed to Kershaw County from Rich-land County. From decree of Circuit Court reversing order of county board of commissioners of Richland County, disallowing the claim, Richland County appeals. cite: Costs and fees are purely statutory: 8 Ency., 955 ; 56 S. C., 506, 411; 54 S. C., 538. And such statutes are strictly construed: 10 S. C., 43; 40 S. C., 445. No statute in this State providing for payment by Richland County…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinoni of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The statement in the “Case for Appeal” is as follows: “On the 3d1 day of April, 1899, a bill of indictment was found by the grand1 jury for Richland County, S. C., charging W. R. Crawford with the murder of one Mrs. Stewart, alleged to1 have been committed in the said county of Richland. Subsequently, on motion of the defendant, Crawford, an order was obtained changing the venue from- Richland County to Kershaw County, and the case so removed was tried thereafter at the June term of the Court of General Sessions for said Kershaw…
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