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STATE v. JOHNSON

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236 S.C. 207 (1960)

113 S.E.2d 540

STATE, Respondent, v. Robert "Bozo" JOHNSON, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

April 4, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Newton Pough, Esq., of Orangeburg, for Appellant.

Messrs. Julian S. Wolfe, Solicitor, and Marshall B. Williams, of Orangeburg, for Respondent.

April 4, 1960.

STUKES, Chief Justice.

Upon an indictment containing three counts, (1) rape, (2) assault with intent to ravish, and (3) assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, appellant was convicted of assault with intent to ravish and sentenced to death. Sec. 16-72, Code of 1952.

He is a young Negro man, twenty-nine years old, and the prosecutrix a white spinster of fifty-two. Their rural homes are separated by about five hundred yards...

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