State v. Robinson

Citations

• 35 S.C. 340
• 14 S.E. 766
• 1892 S.C. LEXIS 174

Syllabus

<p>1. Supreme Court — Facts in Law Case. — This court has no power to consider alleged errors of fact committed by the Circuit Judge in refusing to set aside a verdict in a case at law.</p> <p>2. Testimony Received without Objection cannot be urged on appeal as error in the court below.</p> <p>3. Connected Crimes. — Defendant being charged with breaking into a store house of A, the State may introduce testimony to show that a store house of B in the same locality was also broken into on the same night.</p> <p>4. Charging Juries. — There is no error in refusing to charge a request which states a proposition of law that has no application to the facts in issue.</p> <p>5. Ibid. — Where a judge charges correctly in his own language the law declared by this court, it is not error if he neglects to charge a request upon the subject couched in the language of a decision of this court.</p> <p>6. Ibid. — Facts.—The judge cannot properly charge that circumstances relied on as corroborative of the testimony of an accomplice, are not sufficient corroboration, as the force of testimony is left wholly to the ju'T-</p> <p>7. Evidence' — Connected Crimes. — Defendants being charged with stealing from the house of A, evidence of the contents of a box found in defendant’s possession was admissible, even though it turned out that the goods in such box were goods stolen from another house on the same night.</p>