How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1868 / Served to 1877

Franklin J. Moses Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Franklin J. Moses Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1868. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1804–1877
Tenure: 1868–1877 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1868	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moses authored 168 published opinions for the court (1869–1876), plus 6 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Prothro (10 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 181 of these were attributed to Moses by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1871	Smith v. Prothro†	2 S.C. 371	10
1875	Corwin v. Comptroller General†	6 S.C. 390	8
1875	Bollmann v. Bollmann†	6 S.C. 29	6
1872	State v. Rankin†	3 S.C. 438	6
1869	Gilliland v. Phillips†	1 S.C. 152	6
1872	Cureton v. Watson†	3 S.C. 451	5
1876	DeSaussure v. Bollmann†	7 S.C. 329	4
1872	Bulow v. Witte†	3 S.C. 308	4
1872	Massey v. Brown†	4 S.C. 85	4
1876	Jones & Parker v. Webb†	8 S.C. 202	3
1876	Lyles v. Bolles†	8 S.C. 258	3
1876	Tillman v. Walkup†	7 S.C. 60	3
1874	Cohrs v. Fraser†	5 S.C. 351	3
1872	Pringle v. Dorsey†	3 S.C. 502	3
1870	State ex rel. Attorney General v. Platt· Dissent†	2 S.C. 150	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 181 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Franklin J. Moses Sr. on?: Franklin J. Moses Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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9 years on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).