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State v. Brown

Citations

  • 402 S.C. 119
  • 740 S.E.2d 493
  • 2013 WL 960676
  • 2013 S.C. LEXIS 35

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that on appeal from the denial of a directed verdict in a criminal case, the appellate court \must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State\
  • stating an issue must be “raised to and ruled upon by the trial court” to be preserved for appellate review
  • stating for an issue to be preserved for appellate review it must have been raised to and ruled upon by the trial court
  • finding the appellant's argument unpreserved because he explicitly stated he had no objection to the jury instruction
  • “The General Assembly’s inclusion of a savings clause demonstrates clear legislative intent to avoid disrupting pending or ongoing criminal prosecutions. To read the savings clause in any other way would result in a prohibited alteration of the statute’s operation.”

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Judges: Beatty, Hearn, Kittredge, Only, Pleicones, Toal

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