[1] Those seven classes are cases involving The modern incarnation of the court began operations in 1983, but had historical antecedents dating back to colonial times.

This practice was formalized by statute in 1799, when the South Carolina General Assembly created an appellate body of state circuit judges known as the "Constitutional Court", and provided for the writ of error to be used.

The General Assembly created a Court of Equity in 1808, but this also proved to be unsatisfactory to the administration of justice, primarily because in many cases, the trial judge also sat on the appellate body.

The General Assembly responded by creating the first Court of Appeals in 1824, which consisted of three judges and had appellate jurisdiction in cases of law and equity.

M'Cready petitioned the state trial court for a writ of mandamus compelling the commander to grant him his commission.

After the defeat of the Confederacy in the American Civil War, South Carolina called a new Constitutional Convention.

The Court of Appeals was revived by the General Assembly in 1979, to relieve the growing backlog of appellate cases in the state's judicial system.