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STATE v. BROOKS

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235 S.C. 344 (1959)

111 S.E.2d 686

STATE, Respondent, v. Charles Edward BROOKS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

November 9, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Donald James Sampson and Willie T. Smith, Jr., of Greenville, for Appellant.

Messrs. James R. Mann, Solicitor, and Clarence A. Cappell, of Greenville, for Respondent.

November 9, 1959.

STUKES, Chief Justice.

Appellant, who is a young unmarried Negro man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Secs. 16-71, 72, Code of 1952.

The evidence for the State was that the prosecutrix and her sister-in-law, both young married white women, were walking along a street of the City of Greenville after dark on their way to catch a bus to rejoin a family party with which they had...

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