Court Opinion

ID: 9826126
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 15:23:12.992216+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:51.517525
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Mr. Justice Jones.
I concur in dismissing the appeal in this case. The Circuit Court on appeal from the magistrate court held “that the defendant was in no sense a hawker or peddler, the testimony showing that he neither carried around from place to place for the purpose of selling or offering for sale the prohibited commodities, nor did he sell or offer to sell the same.” This finding of fact is sufficient to support the judgment of the Circuit Court, which was in legal effect a verdict of acquittal, and this Court will not review the findings of fact in a case at law, even if it should be conceded that the State has the right to appeal from, a judgment o.f acquittal in a criminal case. But I concur in the view- of Mr. Justice Gary that the State cannot appeal in this case. State v. Gathers, 15 S. C., 370, shows that an appeal cannot be taken by the State from a judgment of acquittal in the Court of General Sessions. It is true, however, that the State may appeal from an order quashing an *289indictment. State v. Young, 30 S. C., 399, 9 S. E., 355; State v. Bouknight, 55 S. C., 357, 33 S. E., 451; or from a judgment which substantially amounts to. a quashing of an indictment. State v. Long, 66 S. C., 399, 44 S. E., 960.