STATE v. BURTON

23274

302 S.C. 494 (1990)

397 S.E.2d 90

The STATE, Respondent v. Ronnie Lee BURTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided October 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chief Atty. David Bruck and Asst. Appellate Defender Joseph L. Savitz, III, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr. and Miller W. Shealy, Jr. and Staff Atty. Gwendolyn L. Fuller, Columbia, and Sol. William L. Ferguson, York, for respondent.


Heard Sept. 18, 1989.

Decided Oct. 8, 1990.

FINNEY, Justice:

Appellant Ronnie Lee Burton was convicted of murder and criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and thirty years for criminal sexual conduct. We affirm.

Appellant had sexual intercourse with his four year old stepdaughter, Lisa Marie Hurst, on April 29, 1987. Immediately afterward, Lisa...

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