13 S.C. 439
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided April 15, 1880
Supreme Court of South Carolina · decided 1880-04-15
<p>The sentence of the prisoner in the Court of General Sessions is the final judgment, from which alone an appeal may be taken.</p>
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Decided 1880-04-15
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2016
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
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¶1Upon the- call of this case upon the docket of the Supreme Court, it appeared that the appellant had been convicted of an assault and battery in the Court of General Sessions for Abbe-ville county, at September Term, 1879; but the presiding judge refused to sentence him, as an appeal was to be taken.
¶2This court declined to hear the appeal, as there was no final' judgment from which alone an appeal would lie; the sentence of the court being, in such cases, the final judgment.