1870 S.C. Acts 403
Abstract
No. 288, §4: Granted "Trial Justices" the authority to arrest all "affrayers, rioters, disturbers and breakers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people." Including those who make threatening speeches, dangerous person, and disorderly persons.
Summary
The law authorized the arrest of people who went armed offensively in a manner that terrorized the public, along with rioters, peace-breakers, and those making threats. Offenders could be required to post a peace bond, punished under existing penalties, or—if the offense was particularly serious—held for trial in the Court of General Sessions.
Law Text
SEC. 4. They may cause to be arrested all affrayers, rioters, disturbers and breakers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively, to the the terror of the people, and such as utter menaces or threatening speeches, or otherwise dangerous and disorderly persons.
Persons arrested for any of said offences shall be examined by the Trial Justice before whom they are brought, and may be tried before him, and, if found guilty, may be required to find sureties of the peace, and be punished within the limits prescribed in Section 2, or, when the offence is of a high and aggravated nature, they may be committed or bound over for trial before the Court of General Sessions.
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GOING ARMED