State v. Jones

Lewis, Chief Justice:

Appellant was tried in the General Sessions Court of Richland County on charges of armed robbery, rape, assault with intent to ravish and possession of an unlawful weapon in connection with a robbery of the Termplan Finance Company office in Columbia, South Carolina. The victims described their assailant as a black male who wore a hood or mask over his head. Appellant was arrested after the ownership of a car alleged to be the one used in the robbery was traced to him and one of the victims coincidentally sighted the car and recognized the driver as the perpetrator of the…