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42 S.C.L. 322

State v. Parish

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1855-05-15

BEFORE MUNRO, J., AT YORK, SPRING- TERM, 1855. Tbe report of bis Honor, tbe presiding Judge, is as follows: “ This was an indictment against tbe defendant for an assault and battery committed on tbe person of tbe prosecutrix, Nancy M‘Lean. “ At the preceding term of the Court, tbe defendant, together with three others named Ashcrafts, had been convicted of an affray, for beating a son of the prosecutrix in one of the streets of Yorkville. “ In the affray in question, the…

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¶1The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Whitner, J.

¶2The objection taken in this case rests upon the assumption of a former conviction. To constitute this a good defence the offence must be identical or necessarily included the one within the other.

¶3The defendant with others had been convicted of an affray, all the combatants being charged in the general count in the indictment. Special counts charging each with assault and battery on the others were added.

¶4The present indictment charges an assault and battery to have been committed on a female, whose name does not appear in the former proceeding, and who was in no way mixed up with the transaction than in an endeavor to rescue her son from the violence of others.

¶5An affray is the fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of the people.

¶6In the former indictment there was no allegation of an assault and battery on this prosecutrix, the fact being proved would not have been pertinent to any issue then involved, and *324would not have supported, or in any way induced tbe conviction.

¶7Subjected to such test it is manifest that tbe former conviction was no bar to tbe present prosecution, and tbe motion for a new trial is dismissed.

O’Neall, Waedlaw, Withers, Glover, and Mitnro, ,JJ., concurred.

¶8Motion dimmed.

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