Case Name: The State v. Dandy
Court: Constitutional Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1804-04
Citations: 1 Brev. 395
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Dandy.
Judges: Present, Grimke, Waties, Johnson, Trezevant, and Brevard, Justices ; Bay, J. absent.
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 395–396

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.