State v. Robinson

Appellant Robinson was convicted at the January, 1973 term of General Sessions Court of Aiken County of the crimes of murder and burglary and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was charged with having burglarized the home of one Shirley Mae Sullivan and murdered one Maurice L. Patton on September 30, 1972.

Briefly stated the facts of the case are as follows: Sullivan is a young married woman with two children, separated from her husband, but not divorced. At the time of the trial and for sometime prior thereto she was admittedly a prostitute. She and the Appellant Robinson had lived together…