Supreme Court of South Carolina· 8/16/1973

State v. Batson

Citations

198 S.E.2d 517
261 S.C. 128
1973 S.C. LEXIS 228

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upholding amendment of indictment to state name of law enforcement officer who allegedly bought illegal drugs from defendant where original indictment identified the officer only as an “undercover SLED agent”
entertaining “grave doubt as to the propriety, in a criminal case, of the rule of an adverse inference from the failure to produce a material witness”
stating “a charge of this proposition to a jury on ... behalf of either the State or the defense is not warranted except under most unusual circumstances”
finding amendment of an indictment to insert the name of the agent to whom the defendant allegedly sold drugs did not change the nature of the offense
amendment of indictment to insert name of agent to whom defendant allegedly sold LSD did not change nature of offense charged and was permissible
amendment of indictment to insert name of agent to whom defendant allegedly sold LSD did not change nature of offense charged and was permissible

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Judges: Bussey, Moss, Lewis, Brailsford, Littlejohn

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