S.C. Code Ann. § 32-1-290: Making or assisting in making contracts when actual delivery not contemplated or operating bucket shop; penalty.

Any person who, either as agent or principal, enters into or assists in making any contract of sale of the sort or character denounced in SECTION 32-1-220 for the future delivery of cotton, grain, stocks or other commodities or who maintains a bucket shop shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding two years.