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STATE EX REL. THOMPSON v. SEIGLER

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230 S.C. 115 (1956)

94 S.E.2d 231

STATE ex rel. G. HASKELL THOMPSON, Plaintiff, v. JOHN I. SEIGLER and STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Defendants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 23, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. T.C. Callison, Attorney General, James S. Verner, Assistant Attorney General, and D.R. McLeod, Assistant Attorney General, all of Columbia, and Jefferies, McLeod & Unger, of Walterboro, for Respondents.

J.M. Moorer, Esq., of Walterboro, for Plaintiff.

August 23, 1956.

TAYLOR, Justice.

This case in the original jurisdiction of this Court concerns the validity of an order of Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr., suspending Sheriff G. Haskell Thompson of Colleton County from office until the said Thompson is acquitted of the charges contained in an indictment by the Grand Jury of the U.S. District Court at Columbia, South Carolina.

Plaintiff, the suspended Sheriff, contends:

(1) A constitutional...

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