Grand juries may, whenever in their judgment it becomes necessary, employ one or more expert accountants to aid them to examine and investigate the offices, books, papers, vouchers, and accounts of any public officer of their respective counties and to fix the amount of compensation or per diem to be paid therefor, upon the approval of the presiding or circuit judge given before any expert is employed.
Employment of expert accountants
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1560, under Title 14, Chapter 7.
S.C. Code Ann. § 14-7-1560