Supreme Court of South Carolina· 12/7/1982
State v. Bridges
Citations
- 298 S.E.2d 212
- 278 S.C. 447
- 1982 S.C. LEXIS 463
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- holding that, in general, the conduct of a criminal trial is left largely to the sound discretion of the presiding judge, and the appellate court will not interfere unless it clearly appears that rights of the complaining party were abused or prejudiced in some way
- holding that, in general, \the conduct of a criminal trial is left largely to the sound discretion of the presiding judge and [the appellate court] will not interfere unless it clearly appears that rights of the complaining party were abused or prejudiced in some way\
- finding testimony which was normally inadmissible because of the-“dead man’s” statute admissible because another witness testified to substantially the same matters
- trial judge did not abuse his discretion in refusing to rule on the admissibility of impeachment evidence until it was offered in the regular course of the trial
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Judges: Per Curiam
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21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- State v. BryantSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-02-27· cited 57×
- State v. PattersonCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-01-09· cited 51×
- State v. CommanderSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-10-31· cited 51×
- State v. CooperSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-03-15· cited 48×
- Estate of Revis Ex Rel. Revis v. RevisCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-03-31· cited 36×
- State v. HarrisCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-03-04· cited 36×
- State v. BeamCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-06-01· cited 28×
- State v. SheppardSupreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-02-07· cited 28×
- State v. PowersSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-08· cited 25×
- State v. Lee-GriggCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-04-16· cited 22×
- State v. ScipioSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-10-12· cited 21×
- State v. PattonSupreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-06-10· cited 11×
- State v. BrannonCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-07-18· cited 11×
- State v. SilverCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 1992-03-20· cited 9×
- State v. OglesbyCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-07-07· cited 9×
- State v. HollandCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-08-18· cited 8×
- State v. CommanderCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-06-11· cited 6×
- State v. HughesCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2017-01-18· cited 6×
- State v. PaigeCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-12-04· cited 4×
- State v. CherryCourt of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-02-12· cited 3×
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