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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 9 - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE
Section 16-9-270 - Acceptance of bribes by jurors, arbitrators, umpires or referees.
SC Code § 16-9-270 (2012) What's This?
If any person summoned as a juror or chosen or appointed as an arbitrator, umpire or referee corruptly receives any gift or gratuity whatever from a party to a suit, cause or proceeding for the trial or decision of which such juror has been summoned or for the hearing or determination of which such arbitrator, umpire or referee has been chosen or appointed, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at hard labor not exceeding five years or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-218; 1952 Code Section 16-218; 1942 Code Section 1405; 1932 Code Section 1405; Cr. C. '22 Section 340; Cr. C. '12 Section 351; Cr. C. '02 Section 264; G. S. 2639; R. S. 228; 1869 (14) 309.
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