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SC Code § 17-17-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 17 - Habeas Corpus|Section 17-17-180. Recovery of penalties.

 Such penalties may be recovered by the prisoner or party grieved, his executors and administrators, against such offender, his executors or administrators, by action in any court of competent jurisdiction wherein no protection, privilege, injunction or stay of prosecution shall be admitted or allowed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-367; 1952 Code Section 17-367; 1942 Code Section 1062; 1932 Code Section 1062; Cr. P. '22 Section 149; Cr. C. '12 Section 131; Cr. C. '02 Section 104; G. S. 2337; R. S. 104; 1679 (1) 119.
SC Code § 17-17-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 17 - Habeas Corpus|Section 17-17-190. Suspension of habeas corpus by Governor.

 If, during any insurrection, rebellion or any unlawful obstruction of the laws, as set forth in Section 25-1-1850, the Governor in his judgment shall deem the public safety to require it, he may suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the State or any part thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-368; 1952 Code Section 17-368; 1942 Code Section 1066; 1932 Code Section 1066; Cr. P. '22 Section 153; Cr. C. '12 Section 337; Cr. C. '02 Section 250; G. S. 2584; R. S. 215; 1868 (14) 86.
SC Code § 17-17-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 17 - Habeas Corpus|Section 17-17-200. Effect of suspension of writ.

 Whenever the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall be suspended, as aforesaid, no military or other officer shall be compelled in answer to any writ of habeas corpus to return the body of any person detained by him by authority of the Governor. But upon certificate under oath of the officer having charge of anyone so detained that such person is detained by him as a prisoner under the authority of the Governor further proceedings under the writ of habeas corpus shall be suspended by the judge or court having issued the writ so long as such suspension by the Governor shall remain in force and the cause for such suspension continue.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-369; 1952 Code Section 17-369; 1942 Code Section 1066; 1932 Code Section 1066; Cr. P. '22 Section 153; Cr. C. '12 Section 337; Cr. C. '02 Section 250; G. S. 2584; R. S. 215; 1868 (14) 86.
SC Code § 17-19-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-10. Offense shall be prosecuted upon grand jury indictment; exceptions.

 No person shall be held to answer in any court for an alleged crime or offense, unless upon indictment by a grand jury, except in the following cases:  (1) when a prosecution by information is expressly authorized by statute;  (2) in proceedings before a police court or magistrate; and  (3) in proceedings before courts martial.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-401; 1952 Code Section 17-401; 1942 Code Section 995; 1932 Code Section 995; Cr. P. '22 Section 81; Cr. C. '12 Section 75; Cr. C. '02 Section 48; G. S. 2448; R. S. 47.
SC Code § 17-19-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-20. Allegations sufficient for indictment.

 Every indictment shall be deemed and judged sufficient and good in law which, in addition to allegations as to time and place, as required by law, charges the crime substantially in the language of the common law or of the statute prohibiting the crime or so plainly that the nature of the offense charged may be easily understood and, if the offense be a statutory offense, that the offense be alleged to be contrary to the statute in such case made and provided.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-402; 1952 Code Section 17-402; 1942 Code Section 1003; 1932 Code Section 1003; Cr. P. '22 Section 89; Cr. C. '12 Section 83; Cr. C. '02 Section 56; R. S. 55; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-19-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-30. Allegations sufficient for indictment for murder.

 Every indictment for murder shall be deemed and adjudged sufficient and good in law which, in addition to setting forth the time and place, together with a plain statement, divested of all useless phraseology, of the manner in which the death of the deceased was caused, charges that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought kill and murder the deceased.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-403; 1952 Code Section 17-403; 1942 Code Section 1007; 1932 Code Section 1007; Cr. P. '22 Section 93; Cr. C. '12 Section 87; Cr. C. '02 Section 60; R. S. 59; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-19-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-40. Special count for carrying concealed weapons in case of murder and certain other crimes; jurisdiction.

 In every indictment for murder, manslaughter, assault and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and assault and assault and battery with intent to kill and in every case when the crime is charged to have been committed with a deadly weapon of the character specified in Section 16-23-460, there shall be a special count in the indictment for carrying concealed weapons and the jury shall be required to find a verdict on such special count. All cases embraced in this section, including the carrying of the weapons, shall be in the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of general sessions, except in cases where other courts have been given concurrent jurisdiction.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-404; 1952 Code Section 17-404; 1942 Code Section 1008; 1932 Code Section 1008; Cr. P. '22 Section 94; Cr. C. '12 Section 159; Cr. C. '02 Section 131, 1897 (22) 427; 1972 (57) 2235.  Editor's Note  2010 Act No. 273, Section 7.C, provides:  "Wherever in the 1976 Code of Laws reference is made to the common law offense of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, it means assault and battery with intent to kill, as contained in repealed Section 16-3-620, and, except for references in Section 16-1-60 and Section 17-25-45, wherever in the 1976 Code reference is made to assault and battery with intent to kill, it means attempted murder as defined in Section 16-3-29."
SC Code § 17-19-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-50. Averments of instrument of writing, print or figures in indictment.

 In all cases whatsoever in which it shall be necessary to make any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the instrument consists wholly or in part of writing, print or figures, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which it may be usually known or by the purport thereof and in such manner as to sufficiently identify such instrument without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-405; 1952 Code Section 17-405; 1942 Code Section 1009; 1932 Code Section 1009; Cr. P. '22 Section 95; Cr. C. '12 Section 88; Cr. C. '02 Sections 61, 62; R. S. 60, 61; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-19-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-60. Indictments for perjury.

 In any indictment for perjury it shall not be necessary to set forth more than the substance of the oath and the fact concerning which the perjury is alleged to have been committed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-406; 1952 Code Section 17-406; 1942 Code Section 1009; 1932 Code Section 1009; Cr. P. '22 Section 95; Cr. C. '12 Section 88; Cr. C. '02 Sections 61, 62; R. S. 60, 61; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-19-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-70. Indictments against corporations.

 Whenever any corporation doing business in this State, whether incorporated under the laws of this State or not, shall be charged with any offense cognizable by the courts of general sessions the solicitor shall hand out a bill of indictment to the grand jury of the county in which such offense, or some part thereof, has been committed and if the grand jury shall return a true bill the solicitor shall cause a copy of such indictment to be served on such corporation offending in the manner indicated in Section 17-13-80 and upon service of such indictment and the notice required by such section the court of general sessions shall obtain and have jurisdiction of such corporation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-407; 1952 Code Section 17-407; 1942 Code Section 991; 1932 Code Section 991; Civ. C. '22 Section 4299; Civ. C. '12 Section 2832; 1911 (27) 41.
SC Code § 17-19-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-80. Person indicted for capital offense shall have copy of indictment.

 Whoever shall be accused and indicted for any capital offense whatsoever shall have a true copy of the whole indictment, but not the names of the witnesses, delivered to him, three days at least before he shall be tried for such offense, whereby to enable him to advise with counsel thereupon, his attorney, agent or any of them requiring the copy, paying the officer his usual fees for the copy of every such indictment.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-408; 1952 Code Section 17-408; 1942 Code Section 978; 1932 Code Section 978; Cr. P. '22 Section 69; Cr. C. '12 Section 66; Cr. C. '02 Section 40; G. S. 2632; R. S. 40; 1731 (3) 286.
SC Code § 17-19-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-90. Objections to defects in indictments.

 Every objection to any indictment for any defect apparent on the face thereof shall be taken by demurrer or on motion to quash such indictment before the jury shall be sworn and not afterwards.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-409; 1952 Code Section 17-409; 1942 Code Section 1004; 1932 Code Section 1004; Cr. P. '22 Section 90; Cr. C. '12 Section 84; Cr. C. '02 Section 57; R. S. 56; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-19-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 19 - Indictments|Section 17-19-100. Amendments of indictments; proceedings after amendment.

 If (a) there be any defect in form in any indictments or (b) on the trial of any case there shall appear to be any variance between the allegations of the indictment and the evidence offered in proof thereof, the court before which the trial shall be had may amend the indictment (according to the proof, if the amendment be because of a variance) if such amendment does not change the nature of the offense charged. After such amendment the trial shall proceed in all respects and with the same consequences as if the indictment had originally been returned as so amended, unless such amendment shall operate as a surprise to the defendant, in which case the defendant shall be entitled, upon demand, to a continuance of the cause.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-410; 1952 Code Section 17-410; 1942 Code Section 1005; 1932 Code Section 1005; Cr. P. '22 Section 91; Cr. C. '12 Section 85; Cr. C. '02 Section 58; R. S. 57; 1887 (19) 829.
SC Code § 17-21-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-10. Venue where person causes injury within limits of State and death occurs elsewhere.

 When any person shall be struck, wounded, poisoned or otherwise injured or ill-treated within the limits of this State and shall die thereof beyond the limits of this State, whether on the high seas or elsewhere, the person so striking, wounding, poisoning or otherwise causing death as aforesaid shall be subject to indictment, trial and punishment in the county in which the stroke, wound, poisoning or other injury or ill-treatment was committed, in all respects the same as if the death had occurred in such county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-454; 1952 Code Section 17-454; 1942 Code Section 1017; 1932 Code Section 1017; Cr. P. '22 Section 108; Cr. C. '12 Section 144; Cr. C. '02 Section 116; G. S. 2461; R. S. 116; 1859 (12) 822.
SC Code § 17-21-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-20. Venue where person causes injury in one county and death occurs in another.

 When any person shall be struck, wounded, poisoned or otherwise injured in one county and dies thereof in another any inquisition or indictment thereon found by jurors of either county shall be as good and effectual in law as if the stroke, wound, poisoning or other injury had been committed and done in the county in which the party shall die. And the person guilty of such striking, wounding, poisoning or other injury and every accessory thereto, either before or after the fact, shall be tried in the county in which such indictment shall be found and, if convicted, punished in the same mode, manner and form as if the deceased had suffered such striking, wounding, poisoning or other injury and death in the county in which such indictment shall be found.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-456; 1952 Code Section 17-456; 1942 Code Section 1020; 1932 Code Section 1020; Cr. P. '22 Section 111; Cr. C. '12 Section 147; Cr. C. '02 Section 119; G. S. 2464; R. S. 119; 1880 (17) 336.
SC Code § 17-21-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-30. Venue where perpetrator of homicide and victim are in different states.

 When any person within the limits of this State shall inflict an injury on any person who at the time the injury is inflicted is beyond the limits of this State or when any person beyond the limits of this State shall inflict an injury on any person at the time within the limits of this State and such injury shall cause the death of the person injured, in either case the person causing such death shall be subject to be indicted, tried and punished in the first case in the county of this State where the person inflicting the injury was at the time when the injury was inflicted and, in the second case, in the county in which it was received. The procedure and punishment shall be in all respects the same as if both parties were within such county at the time the injury was inflicted and the homicide had been in all respects completed in such county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-455; 1952 Code Section 17-455; 1942 Code Section 1018; 1932 Code Section 1018; Cr. P. '22 Section 109; Cr. C. '12 Section 145; Cr. C. '02 Section 117; G. S. 2462; R. S. 117; 1859 (12) 822.
SC Code § 17-21-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-40. Venue where perpetrator of homicide and victim are in different counties.

 When an injury is inflicted by any person within the bounds of one county of this State on a person within the bounds of another county and death shall ensue therefrom within this State, indictment, trial and punishment shall be the same as if the homicide had been committed altogether within the county in which the injured person dies. And when the injured person dies without the jurisdiction of this State, indictment, trial and punishment shall be the same as if the homicide had been completed in the county in which the injury causing death was received.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-457; 1952 Code Section 17-457; 1942 Code Section 1019; 1932 Code Section 1019; Cr. P. '22 Section 110; Cr. C. '12 Section 146; Cr. C. '02 Section 118; G. S. 2463; R. S. 118; 1859 (12) 823.
SC Code § 17-21-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-50. Venue for trial of accessories before the fact.

 A person charged as an accessory before the fact may be indicted, tried and punished in the same court and county in which the principal felon might be indicted and tried, although the offense of counseling, hiring or procuring the commission of such felony is committed on the high seas or on land outside of the county either within or without the limits of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-452; 1952 Code Section 17-452; 1942 Code Section 1021; 1932 Code Section 1021; Cr. P. '22 Section 112; Cr. C. '12 Section 921; Cr. C. '02 Section 636; G. S. 2612; R. S. 523; 1712 (2) 484; 1961 (52) 40.
SC Code § 17-21-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-60. Venue for trial of accessories after the fact.

 Whoever becomes an accessory to a felony after the fact may be indicted, convicted and punished, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice, by any court having jurisdiction to try the principal felon and either in the county in which such person became an accessory or in the county in which the principal felony was committed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-453; 1952 Code Section 17-453; 1942 Code Section 1022; 1932 Code Section 1022; Cr. P. '22 Section 113; Cr. C. '12 Section 922; Cr. C. '02 Section 637; G. S. 2613; R. S. 524; 1714 (2) 543.
SC Code § 17-21-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-70. Venue in proceedings against corporations.

 No criminal proceeding shall be instituted against any corporation unless the offense charged or some part thereof shall have been committed in the county in which the prosecution shall be instituted.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-451; 1952 Code Section 17-451; 1942 Code Section 989; 1932 Code Section 989; Civ. C. '22 Section 4297; Civ. C. '12 Section 2830; 1911 (27) 39.
SC Code § 17-21-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-80. Change of venue; notice, application, and affidavit.

 The circuit courts shall have power to change the venue in all criminal cases pending therein, and over which they have original jurisdiction, by ordering the record to be removed to another county in the same circuit. The application for removal must be made to the judge sitting in regular term by some party interested, by the solicitor of the circuit or by the accused, supported by affidavit that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where such action or prosecution was commenced. The State shall have the same right to make application for a change of venue that a defendant has in cases of murder, arson, rape, burglary, perjury, forgery or grand larceny; provided, that no change of venue shall be granted in such cases until a true bill has been found by a grand jury. Four days' notice of such application in civil and criminal cases shall be given to the adverse party, and if a change is ordered, it shall be to a county in the same judicial circuit; provided, further, that such adverse party to whom notice is given shall have the right to waive it. The circuit judge shall have the power, upon application made to him by either party, upon proper cause shown, to shorten or extend the time for the hearing of the application for a change of venue.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-458; 1961 (52) 562.
SC Code § 17-21-85 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-85. Order for jury selection in criminal case be conducted in another county; expenses.

 A circuit judge may, in a criminal case in which he determines that an unbiased jury cannot be selected in the county in which the defendant was indicted, order that jury selection go forward in some other county and the jury, when selected, be transported to the county in which the indictment was returned for the duration of the trial. In making a determination whether to proceed as allowed by this section or to order a change of venue for a trial, the court shall consider all the logistical and expense elements and, consistent with the demands of justice, choose the method that results in the least expense and greatest convenience for all parties involved in the case. All expenses of jury selection in another county must be paid by the county in which the trial occurs.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 313, Section 1.
SC Code § 17-21-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 21 - Venue|Section 17-21-90. Costs when venue is changed; disposition of fine.

 Whenever a criminal case is transferred from one county to another for trial all the costs and expenses of such trial shall be paid by the county in which the bill of indictment was found. The clerk of court of the county in which the bill of indictment was found, his deputy or some other person designated for the purpose by such clerk of court shall attend upon such trial to issue vouchers or warrants for such costs and expenses in like manner as if the case were tried in the county in which the bill of indictment was found and such costs and expenses shall be paid by the treasurer of such county as other court expenses of such county are paid. And in the event a verdict of guilty is returned against the defendant named in the bill of indictment and a fine is imposed as well as any other penalty and such fine be paid the proceeds of such fine shall be delivered to the clerk of court of the county having original jurisdiction by the clerk of court of the county in which the verdict was obtained.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-556; 1952 Code Section 17-556; 1942 Code Section 1023; 1932 Code Section 1023; Civ. C. '22 Section 5722; Civ. C. '12 Section 4205; 1902 (22) 1087; 1930 (36) 1097; 1933 (38) 441.
SC Code § 17-22-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 22 - Intervention Programs|Section 17-22-10. Short title.

 This article may be cited as the "Pretrial Intervention Act."  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 360, Section 2.
SC Code § 17-22-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 22 - Intervention Programs|Section 17-22-20. Definitions.

 When used in this chapter:  (1) The term "prosecutorial discretion" shall mean the power of the circuit solicitor to consider all circumstances of criminal proceedings and to determine whether any legal action is to be taken and, if so taken, of what kind and degree and to what conclusion.  (2) The term "noncriminal disposition" shall mean the dismissal of a criminal charge without prejudice to the State to reinstate criminal proceedings on motion of the solicitor.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 360, Section 3.
SC Code § 17-22-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 17 - Criminal Procedures|Chapter 22 - Intervention Programs|Section 17-22-30. Circuit solicitors to establish pretrial intervention programs; oversight of administrative procedures.

 (A) Each circuit solicitor shall have the prosecutorial discretion as defined herein and shall as a matter of such prosecutorial discretion establish a pretrial intervention program in the respective circuits.  (B) The circuit solicitors are specifically endowed with and shall retain all discretionary powers under the common law.  (C) A pretrial intervention program shall be under the direct supervision and control of the circuit solicitor; however, he may contract for services with any agency desired.  (D) The South Carolina Commission on Prosecution Coordination shall oversee administrative procedures for the Circuit Solicitors' Pretrial Intervention Programs.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 360, Section 4; 1992 Act No. 453, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 499, Section 1.