Smith v. Phoenix Furniture Company

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• falsely accusing someone of a crime is slander per se and where slander per se is proven, damages are presumed
• words are actionable per se in South Carolina when they falsely or maliciously charge a person with the commission of a crime or distinctly imply that one has committed a crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).