Section 14-3-370. Times when circuit judges shall sit with Supreme Court.

SC Code § 14-3-370 (2019) (N/A)
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Whenever, upon the hearing of any cause or question before the Supreme Court in the exercise of its original or appellate jurisdiction, (a) it shall appear to the justices thereof or any three of them that there is involved a question of constitutional law or of conflict between the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States or between the duties and obligations of her citizens under the same, upon the determination of which the entire court is not agreed or (b) the justices of said court, or any two of them, desire it, the Chief Justice, or in his absence the presiding associate justice, shall call to the assistance of the Supreme Court all the judges of the circuit courts, except that when the matter to be submitted is involved in an appeal from a circuit court the circuit judge who tried the case shall not sit.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 15-127; 1952 Code Section 15-127; 1942 Code Section 30; 1932 Code Section 30; Civ. P. '22 Section 29; Civ. P. '12 Section 14; Civ. P. '02 Section 14; 1870 (14) 314.