2022 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 17 - Criminal Procedures
Chapter 7 - Autopsies And Inquest On The Dead
Section 17-7-270. Form of conclusion of inquisition in case of death by self-murder.

Universal Citation: SC Code § 17-7-270 (2022)

If it appears that the deceased died by self-murder the inquisition shall conclude: "That the said E F, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there voluntarily and feloniously himself did kill, against the peace and dignity of the same State aforesaid."

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 17-122; 1952 Code Section 17-122; 1942 Code Section 1082; 1932 Code Section 1082; Cr. P. '22 Section 169; Cr. C. '12 Section 1013; Cr. C. '02 Section 715; G. S. 2678; R. S. 594; 1839 (11) 75.

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