State v. Outen

Moss, Justice.

Walter James Outen, the appellant herein, a Negro man twenty-nine years of age, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Sections 16-71, 16-72, of the 1952 Code of Laws of South Carolina.

The evidence for the State was that the prosecutrix, a white married woman, was a waitress in a restaurant in the City of Columbia and resided several miles north of the City near the Town of Dentsville. On November 11, 1959, after the prosecutrix had finished her days work as a waitress, she caught a bus at 10:15 p. m. to go home. She got off the bus some distance from her home in a rather…