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· 11/5/1953

Parker v. State Highway Department

Citations

  • 78 S.E.2d 382
  • 224 S.C. 263
  • 1953 S.C. LEXIS 95

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding a driver’s license suspension is not part of the punishment fixed by the court, nor is it an added punishment for the criminal offense committed, as it is civil and not criminal in nature
  • “But the word [convicted] is also often used as including both the ascertainment of the guilt of the accused and the judgment thereon by the Court.”
  • \But the word [convicted] is also often used as including both the ascertainment of the guilt of the accused and the judgment thereon by the Court.\
  • “But the word [convicted] is also often used as including both the ascertainment of the guilt of the accused and the judgment thereon by the Court.”
  • “Upon ... conviction, there is no longer a presumption of innocence. There then arises a ‘legal as well as laical presumption’ that the conviction is just.”

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Judges: Oxner, Stukes, Taylor, Brailsford, Baker

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