Terms Used In South Carolina Code 44-53-391

• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Distributor: means a person who so delivers a controlled substance. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Drug: means a substance:
  
  (a) recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
  
  (b) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man and animals;
  
  (c) other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man and animals; and
  
  (d) intended for use as a component of any substance specified in subitem (a), (b), or (c) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for his own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:
  
  (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice; or
  
  (b) by a practitioner, or by his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Paraphernalia: means any instrument, device, article, or contrivance used, designed for use, or intended for use in ingesting, smoking, administering, manufacturing, or preparing a controlled substance and does not include cigarette papers and tobacco pipes but includes, but is not limited to:
  
  (a) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic marijuana or hashish pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;
  
  (b) water pipes designed for use or intended for use with marijuana, hashish, hashish oil, or cocaine;
  
  (c) carburetion tubes and devices;
  
  (d) smoking and carburetion masks;
  
  (e) roach clips;
  
  (f) separation gins designed for use or intended for use in cleaning marijuana;
  
  (g) cocaine spoons and vials;
  
  (h) chamber pipes;
  
  (i) carburetor pipes;
  
  (j) electric pipes;
  
  (k) air-driven pipes;
  
  (l) chilams;
  
  (m) bongs;
  
  (n) ice pipes or chillers. See South Carolina Code 44-53-110
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.