State v. Barnes

Citations

• 32 S.C. 14
• 6 L.R.A. 743
• 10 S.E. 611
• 1890 S.C. LEXIS 5

Syllabus

<p>1. Defendant being convicted of grand larceDy, was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for the term of two years. After serving eight months of his term, he was pardoned by the governor “upon condition that he shall leave the State within forty-eight hours, never to return.” Held, that the condition annexed to the pardon was not illegal, immoral, or impossible to be performed.</p> <p>2. And defendant having accepted the pardon, and six years afterwards returned to the State, he was then properly recommitted to the penitentiary to serve out the unexpired term of his original sentence.</p>