Supreme Court of South Carolina November 15, 1822 (Walsh v. State)

Mr. Justice Richardson

delivered the opinion of the court.

The question made in this case is when a count sets forth a libel, not by the tenor, which word presupposes a correct copy of the libel, but merely by the substance, whether such substance, i. e. the sense and meaning of the libel, must not be still set forth and exhibited in the very *249Words, i. e.