Case Name: STATE v. TURNER
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1922-02-10
Citations: 118 S.C. 383
Docket Number: 10536
Parties: STATE v. TURNER
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 118
Pages: 383–386

Head Matter:
10536
STATE v. TURNER
(110 S. E. 525)
1. ' Criminal Law—Order Overruling Demurrer to Indictment and Motion to Quash Not Appealable, Not Being a Final Judgment. —An appeal cannot be taken from an order overruling a demurrer to the indictment and motion to quash indictment, since such order is not a final judgment, and such appeal can only be taken from a final judgment.
On Petition for Rehearing
2. Intoxicating Liquors—Indictment Need not Allege That Dependant Did not Come Within Exceptions.—Indictment charging violation of Acts 1917, p. 69, § 1, making it unlawful to receive, store, transport, etc., intoxicating liquors, with certain exceptions, need not allege that defendant did not come within the exceptions.
Before MemmingER, J., Anderson, February, 1920.
Affirmed.
Ralph Turner indicted for violation of the prohibition law and upon conviction' appeals".
Messrs. A. H. Dagnett and Greene & Earle, for appellant,
cite: Person has right to have in possession for personal use one quart: 30 Stat. 69, Sec. 2. Until passage of that Act it was not an offense- to transport whiskey for personal use: 96 S. C., 5. All material facts must be stated in the indictment: Joyce indictments, Sec. 246; 10 Ene. P. of P., 473; 32 S. C., 123; 22 Cyc., 343; Crim. Code 1912, Sec. 83; 14 R. C. E., 174. Indictment applicable to two offenses without specifying which is bad: 58 N. H., 348; 1 Moody C. C., 158; 22 Cyc., 295.
Messrs. Kurts P. Smith, Solicitor, and John M. Daniel, Asst. A tty. Gen., for respondent. Mr. Daniel
cites: Not necessary to negative in the indictment things not forbidden: 76 S. C., 49. Indictment sufficient: Crim. Code 1912, Sec. 83.
February 10, 1922.

Opinion:
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Gary.
It does not appear from the "case" that there has been a final judgment from which alone an appeal may be taken. The appeal is therefore premature, and for that reason it is dismissed. State v. Byars, 79 S. C., 174, 60 S. E., 448, and cases cited.
Appeal dismissed.