Case Name: The State vs. George Perrin
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1813-04
Citations: 1 Tread 446
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State vs. George Perrin.
Judges: All the court concurred.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 446–447

Head Matter:
Columbia, April Term,, 1813»
The State vs. George Perrin.
Eg AN, for Motion,
Stark, Contra,
on an in. dictment for a libel, agamst Jane Cox, which li-bed her as the only daughter of the widow Eoaeh, the innuendo in the indictment, stated the identity of Mrs. R’s daughter, and the prosecutrix, Mrs. Cox. Held, that it was not necessary to prove that the prosecutrix was the only daughter.
Motion for a new trial.

Opinion:
Brevard, J. 7
There seems to me to be no sufficient legal grounds to support the motions made in this case, or either of them. The libel is charged to have been published of, and concerning the prose-cutrix Jane Cox, describing her as the only daughter of the widow Roach. The indictment contains an innuendo, shewing the application of the slander, and averring the identity of Mrs. Roach's daughter and the prosecutrix, Mrs. Cox.
It was proved that the prosecutrix is the daughter of the widow Roach; but it was not proved that she was an only daughter. I think it was unnecessary to state in the innuendo that she was an only daughter, as it would have been sufficiently certain and complete without it. If this was not necessary to support the indictment, it was not necessary to be proved. Enough was proved to shew the application of the slander, with reasonable certainty, and the rest might be considered as surplus-age, and rejected.
All the court concurred.