State v. Brooks

Stukes, Chief Justice.

Appellant, who is a young unmarried Negro man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Secs. 16-71, 72, Code of 1952.

The evidence for the State was that the prosecutrix and her sister-in-law, both young married white women, were walking along a street of the City of Greenville after dark on their way to catch a bus to rejoin a family party with which they had come to the city from their home in an adjoining county. Appellant accosted them saying that he was a prison escapee and had already killed two girls, and at pistol-point threatened their lives and compelled…