State v. Fleming

Moss, Chief Justice:

Ronald Fleming and George Stanwood, the appellants herein, were tried upon an indictment charging them with the crime of rape, Section 16-71 of the Code. The case came on for trial before The Honorable George Bell Timmerman, Jr., Presiding Judge, and a jury, at the 1969 May Term of the Court of General Sessions for Lexington County. The jury found Ronald Fleming guilty of rape with a recommendation to mercy and he was sentenced to serve a term of thirty years in the State Penitentiary. George Stanwood was found guilty of an assault and battery of a high and aggravated…