HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellant, a Negro convicted of the rape of a white woman by the court sitting without a jury, claims that his confession was involuntary because obtained by a threat to charge him with another crime of which he was innocent and, so, was improperly admitted into evidence to his prejudice.
On a February night in 1962 Miss Margaret Antone, a recluse living in Cecilton, was dragged from her home, badly
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