State v. Quillien

Agnew, Acting Justice :

This is an appeal from a conviction of a violation of Section 16-71 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1962) wherein the defendant was convicted of the crime of rape in the Court of General Sessions in and for Lexington County, South Carolina on the 9th day of August, 1973. The sentence of the court was that the defendant Loman Quillien be confined to the State Penitentiary for a period of thirty-five years.

The exceptions assert error in the admission and exclusion of evidence, in denying Appellant’s motion for a mistrial, and the reluctancy of the trial judge to…