Ex Parte Swygert

Citations

• 108 S.E. 261
• 117 S.C. 94

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law—Assumption op Jurisdiction in County op Wound Precludes its Assumption in County op Death.—Under Cr. Code 1912, § 147, providing that, where one is wounded in one county and dies in another, indictment in either of the person causing it shall be good, and he shall be tried in the county where the indictment is found, the Court of the county where wound was inflicted having first assumed exclusive jurisdiction of the case, accused cannot be proceeded against in the county where the person died.</p>