2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
Chapter 7 - Autopsies And Inquest On The Dead
Section 17-7-240. Duty to render verdict; form.
The jury having viewed the body, heard the evidence and made inquiry into the cause and manner of the death shall render their verdict thereon, in writing, to the coroner under their hands and seals in the manner following, which shall pass by indenture interchangeably between the coroner and jury, that is to say:
"South Carolina,
County of __________
An inquisition indented, taken at __________, in __________ County, the ___ day of __________, A. D. ___, before A B, coroner (or C D, magistrate, acting as coroner) for said county, upon view of the body of E F, of __________, then and there being dead, by the oaths of (inserting the names of the jurors), being a lawful jury of inquest, who, being charged and sworn to inquire for the State of South Carolina where and by what means the said E F came to his death, upon their oath do say, etc. (inserting how, where, at what time and by what instrument the deceased was killed)."
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-119; 1952 Code Section 17-119; 1942 Code Section 1080; 1932 Code Section 1080; Cr. P. '22 Section 167; Cr. C. '12 Section 1011; Cr. C. '02 Section 713; G. S. 2676; R. S. 592; 1839 (11) 74.
