Case Name: STATE v. GRICE ET AL.
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1917-02-08
Citations: 106 S.C. 280
Docket Number: 9579
Parties: STATE v. GRICE ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 106
Pages: 280–281

Head Matter:
9579
STATE v. GRICE ET AL.
(91 S. E. 307.)
Witnesses—Cross-Examination—Discretion op Court.—In a prosecution for selling liquor, the action of the Court, in refusing to allow a State’s witness to be asked on cross-examination “if he had not been indicted for nonsupport of his family,” was not an abuse of the Court’s discretion to limit the extent to which an attorney shall be permitted to cross-examine a witness.
Before Smith, J., Columbia, May, 1916.
Affirmed.
J. N. Grice and Calvin F. McCravy were each convicted of selling liquor, and each appeals.
Mr. A. W. Holman, for appellant.
Mr. Solicitor Cobb, for respondent.
February 8, 1917.

Opinion:
The judgment of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Fraser.
These cases were heard together, as the same question is involved.
The appellant was indicted for selling liquor. On the trial, the appellant's attorney asked the State's witness on the cross-examination if he had not been indicted for nonsupport of his family. The solicitor objected, and the question was ruled out as irrelevant.
In State v. Crosby, 88 S. C. 105, 70 S. E. 440, this Court said:
"In the first place, we fail to see the relevancy of the testimony which the defendant's attorneys sought to elicit from the witness; and, in the second place, the extent to which an áttorney shall be permitted to cross-examine a witness is limited by the presiding Judge, and his ruling in this respect is not appealable, unless there has been an abuse of discretion, which does not appear in this case."
No abuse of discretion appears here. This is the only question.
The judgment is affirmed.