Gates v. State

The evidence for the State showed substantially the following: On August 1, 1950, Anne Weaver testified that she lived in the basement of the Wofford Sanford Hospital; that on this occasion she went on duty as a nurse at Wofford’s Clinic, at midnight, and when she assumed her duties she went into Dr. Wofford’s reception room where she lay down; that she heard a noise “like thunder” and there was a “flash" and she looked up and the defendant was standing over her, at her head; that she immediately screamed and the defendant ran out of the room and later on out of the building; that when the…