State v. Sudduth
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Gary, J., Greenville, March, 1897. Indictment against W. Henry Sudduth. for rape. Defendant convicted, and appeals. cite: Witness may state that prosecutrix made complaint, but can state nothing more: 41 N. Y., 265. Declarations of prosecutrix made considerable period after ocmrrence not admissible: 25 S. E. R., 616. Force necessary to make out rape: 59 N. Y., 374; 126 Ind., 185. (Oral argument.)
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Pope.
The defendant, appellant, was tried for the terrible crime of rape, and was found guilty by the jury, with a recommendation to mercy. After sentence by his Honor, Judge Ernest Gary, to imprisonment for his whole life in the State penitentiary, he has appealed to this Court.
*4891 *488By his grounds of appeal, he presents the following ques*489tions for our consideration: First. That it was not competent for a witness for the State (who was the mother of the outraged young woman) to testify as to what the victim said to her mother when she first saw…
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