2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
Chapter 7 - Autopsies And Inquest On The Dead
Section 17-7-30. Findings on preliminary examination and filing of evidence.

Universal Citation: SC Code § 17-7-30 (2022)

The evidence and the finding of the officer on such preliminary examination shall be filed in the clerk's office of the county, the finding to be that deceased came to death (a) from natural cause, (b) at his own hand, (c) from an act of God or (d) from mischance, without blame on the part of another person.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-92; 1952 Code Section 17-92; 1942 Code Section 1097; 1932 Code Section 1097; Cr. P. '22 Section 184; Cr. C. '12 Section 1027; Cr. C. '02 Section 729; 1884 (21) 825.

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