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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT,
    COLUMBIA,
    APRIL, 1804.
    The State v. Dandy.
    judgment arrested on an indictment for compounding a felony, where the felony was laid on a day subsequent, in date, to that on which it was charged to have been compounded, although charged to have been compounded “ afterwards”
    This was an indictment for a misdemeanor, charged to have been committed by the defendant in compounding a felony,, and was tried before Trezevant, J. Tne felony stated in the indictment, was for passing a counterleit bank bill, which was charged to have been committed on the 5th day of November, 
      1802. The indictment then stated, that “ afterwards,' to wit, on the 1st day of June, 1800,” the said felony was compounded. The prisoner was found guilty ; and now a motion was brought forward in this court in arrest of judgment.
    Gantt, for the defendant. Starke, for the State.
   By the court.

The indictment is absurd. It is impossible that the defendant could be guilty of the offence as charged.

Judgment arvested.

Present, Grimke, Waties, Johnson, Trezevant, and Brevard, Justices ; Bay, J. absent.