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The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1944 / Served to 1962

G. Dewey Oxner

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

G. Dewey Oxner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1898 · age 128
Tenure: 1944–1962 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Oxner authored 478 published opinions for the court (1933–1962), plus 25 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kimbrough (61 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. 83 of these were attributed to Oxner 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
1948	State v. Kimbrough	46 S.E.2d 273	61
1957	Benton Ex Rel. Benton v. Pellum	100 S.E.2d 534	53
1951	State v. Gardner	64 S.E.2d 130	52
1956	Meetze Ex Rel. Golden v. Associated Press	95 S.E.2d 606	51
1946	Moseley v. Welch	39 S.E.2d 133	46
1951	State v. Myers	67 S.E.2d 506	44
1949	Gaud v. Walker	53 S.E.2d 316	44
1955	South Carolina State Highway Department v. Harbin	86 S.E.2d 466	43
1951	Hill v. Polar Pantries	64 S.E.2d 885	43
1953	Parker v. State Highway Department	78 S.E.2d 382	42
1951	Machado v. Machado†	220 S.C. 90	42
1947	Bowers v. Charleston & W. C. Ry. Co.· Concurrence	42 S.E.2d 705	42
1960	Hall v. Murphy	113 S.E.2d 790	40
1957	State v. MOUZON	99 S.E.2d 672	38
1951	State Ex Rel. Roddey v. BYRNES, GOVERNOR· Concurrence†	66 S.E.2d 33	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 533 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 G. Dewey Oxner on?: G. Dewey Oxner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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18 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).