Case ID: sc_118/html/0026-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Fraser.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10796
    STATE v. McCAIN
    (110 S. E. 79)
    Criminal Law—Objection op no Proof of Venue Must be Raised by Motion to Direct Verdict..—The point that there is no proof of the venue must be first made in a motion to direct a verdict for accused; rule No. 77 applying to criminal, as well as civil, cases.
    Before MclvER, J., Marlboro, October, 1920.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Rosa McCain indicted for the murder of Walter McCain and upon conviction appeals.
    
      Mr. Jennings K. Owens, for,appellant,
    cites: Not sufficient proof of venue to bring this case within the principle of 3 Hill 91; 6 S. C. 383; 61 S. C. 207; 35 S. C. 91.
    
      Mr. J. Monroe Spears, Solicitor, for respondent.
    December 19, 1921.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fraser.

The statement in the case is:

“Rosa McCain was tried October 4, 1920, on an indictment charging her with the murder of her husband, Walter McCain. The jury returned a verdict of guilty (of manslaughter), and attorney for'defendant made a motion for a new trial on the ground that the State failed to prove venue. Only three witnesses were examined, two on behalf of the State and the defendant herself. The case' on appeal passes the same question that was presented to the presiding Judge on motion for new trial.”

The motion for a new trial was made on the ground that there .was no proof of the venue. The case of State v. Daniel, 83 S. C. 310, 65 S. E. 236, shows that rule No. 77 applies to criminal as well as civil cases. The case does not show that there was a motion to direct a verdict, and the question raised by the appeal cannot be considered.

The appeal is dismissed.