Case Name: STATE v. HUNTER
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1911-02-23
Citations: 87 S.C. 541
Docket Number: 7781
Parties: STATE v. HUNTER.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 87
Pages: 541–542

Head Matter:
7781
STATE v. HUNTER.
Stay op remittitur is not a prerequisite to the hearing of a motion before a Circuit Judge.
Application for stay of remittitur in State v. G. Wash Hunter.
Mr. Fred W. Dominick, for the motion.
February 23, 1911.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Gary.
On the 201h of February, 1911, I received the following telegram directed to me at Abbeville, S. C.: "Please wire Clerk Brooks to hold up remittitur in Hunter case, until further instructions from you. Have motion to make in case which cannot be made until Judge Watts comes in this circuit.
(Signed) Fred W. Dominick/''
On that day I sent the following message to the clerk of the Supreme Court: "Hold remittitur in Hunter case until further orders."
As I regarded the appellant's attorney's telegram in the nature of a petition, though informal, and desiring that a formal petition should be filed, I telegraphed Mr. Fred W. Dominick as follows: "Flave ordered stay. File petition stating grounds in Supreme Court."
After careful consideration I have reached the conclusion that a stay of the remittitur is not a prerequisite to the hearing of a motion before a Circuit Judge.
Under these circumstances it will not be necessary to await the fifing of the formal petition.
It is therefore ordered, that the petition be dismissed and that the order heretofore granted by me be revoked.