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STATE v. WHIPPLE

No. 24458.

324 S.C. 43 (1996)

476 S.E.2d 683

The STATE, Respondent, v. James Bernard WHIPPLE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided July 1, 1996.

Rehearing Denied August 2, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel T. Stacey, Chief Attorney, South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, and Jeffrey P. Bloom, Richland County Public Defender, Columbia, for appellant.

Charles Molony Condon, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Deputy Attorney General, Salley W. Elliott, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Harold M. Coombs, Jr., Columbia, and Solicitor Ralph J. Wilson, Conway, for respondent.

WALLER, Justice:

Whipple was convicted of murder, criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, armed robbery, and grand larceny of a motor vehicle. He was respectively sentenced to death, thirty years, twenty-five years, and ten years. We affirm.

FACTS

Nineteen year old Heather Stigliano (Victim) moved from Pennsylvania to Myrtle Beach in September, 1991. She was last seen alive on November 4, 1991. Her body was found in her apartment on November...

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