The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20

jury had been committed and done in the
same county wheie the party ehall die.
And tho person or peraons guilty Of such
striking, wounding; poisoning or other
injury, and every accessory thereto, either
before or after the fact, shall be tried In
the county where such indictment shall
be found, and if convicted, punished in
the same mode, manner and form as il
the deceased had suffered such striking.
woundihg, poisoning or other injury and
death in the county where euch indict.
ment shall be found.
Approved December 81, 1880.
AN Act to regulate Appeals from Trial
Justices Courts in Criminal Causes.
BE IL enoctcd by the Senate and Eouse
of Representatives of rhe State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly and b. the authority of the
same:
SECTION /. That from and after the
passage of this Act all appeals from Trial
Justices Courts in criminal cases shall
be taken and prosecuted ny follows:
SEC. 2. The appellant shall, within
five days after sentence, serve notice of
appeal upon the trial justice who tries
the case, stating the grounds upon which
the appeal is founded.
SEC. 3. Within ten days after said SER
vice the said trial justice shall file in the
office of the CLERK of Court the said no.
tice, together with the record and state
fnent of all the proceedings In the case,
and the testimony in writing, taken mt
the trial, and signed by the witnesses.
SEC. 4. That upon service of the said
notice the said trial justice shall, ON de.
mand of the defendant, admit him to
bail, in such reasonable sum, and with
good sureties, as said trial justice may
require, with condition to appear at the
Court appealed to, and at any subsequent
term to which the case may be continued,
if not previously surrendered. and SO,
from term to term, until the final decree,
sentence or order Of the Court thereon,
and to abide such final sentence, order or
decree, and not depart without leave,
and in the meantime to keep the peace
and be of coed behavior.
Sec. s.. That the Clerk of Court, upon
receipt of said case, shall place the same
upon the proper docket of the Court of
General Sessions for trihi or other dispo.
sitiOn st the next ensuing term of said
court.
SEC. 6. That the said appeal shall bo
heard by the Court of General Sessions
upon the grounds of exceptions made,
and upon the papers hereinbefore re-
quired, and without the examination of
witnesses in said Court. Aud the said
Court may either confirm the sentence
appealed from, reverse or modify the
same, or grant Il new trial, as 10 the said
Court may seem meet and comiormable
to law.
Approved December "a, 1880.
AN ACT to amend an Act entitled can
Act to prohibit persons living together
in Adultery" approved December 20,
1878, and to define the crimes Of Adult
terry and Fornicatior. III
BE il enacted by the Senate and Hou SO
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina. now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
That an Act entitled Gan Act to pro.
hibit persons living together in adultery"
approved December 20, 1878, be amended
SO as to read as follnws, 20 wit:
SECTION l. That any man and woman
who shall be guilty of the crime of adul-
terry or fornicAlion shall be liable to in
dictmept, and, OIL conviction, shall be
severely punished by line of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for
not less than six months nor more than
one year, or by both fine and imprison-
ment, at the discretion Of the Court
SEC. 2. That adultery is the living to-
gether and carnal intercourse with each
other, or habitual carnal intercourse with
each other, without living together. of n
man and woman, when either is lawfully
married to some other person.
SEC. 3. That fornication is the living
together and carnal intercourse with each
other, or habitual carnal intercourse with
each other, without living together, of a
man and woman, both being unmarried.
Approved December 81, 1880.