2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
CHAPTER 19 - INDICTMENTS
SECTION 17-19-40. Special count for carrying concealed weapons in case of murder and certain other crimes; jurisdiction.
In every indictment for murder, manslaughter, assault and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and assault and assault and battery with intent to kill and in every case when the crime is charged to have been committed with a deadly weapon of the character specified in Section 16-23-460, there shall be a special count in the indictment for carrying concealed weapons and the jury shall be required to find a verdict on such special count. All cases embraced in this section, including the carrying of the weapons, shall be in the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of general sessions, except in cases where other courts have been given concurrent jurisdiction.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-404; 1952 Code Section 17-404; 1942 Code Section 1008; 1932 Code Section 1008; Cr. P. '22 Section 94; Cr. C. '12 Section 159; Cr. C. '02 Section 131, 1897 (22) 427; 1972 (57) 2235.
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