Supreme Court of South Carolina· 10/3/2012

State v. Black

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400 S.C. 10
732 S.E.2d 880
2012 WL 4711858
2012 S.C. LEXIS 200

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holding an unchallenged ruling, right or wrong, becomes the law of the case and will not be considered by the appellate court
finding erroneous admission of a witness's remote manslaughter conviction harmless due to the unchallenged admission of another prior conviction for shooting/throwing a deadly missile
stating “[t]he admission or exclusion of evidence is left to the sound discretion of the trial [court], whose decision will not be reversed on appeal absent an abuse of discretion”
determining the error to be harmless after a review of the entire record and finding the admission of additional evidence against the defendant \could not reasonably have affected the jury's result in this case\
finding the circuit court's ruling permitting admission of a defense witness's prior conviction was the law of the case when the defendant did not challenge the use of the conviction to impeach the witness's testimony
\An appellate court generally will decline to set aside a conviction due to insubstantial errors not affecting the result.\ (citations omitted)

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Judges: Beatty, Hearn, Kittredge, Pleicones, Toal

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