State v. Harris

BOBBITT, Chief Justice.

Defendant’s appellate counsel concedes, and rightly so, that defendant’s motion for judgment as in case of nonsuit was properly overruled. The State’s unequivocal and uncontradicted evidence was amply sufficient to support the verdict of guilty as charged.

In pronouncing judgment Judge McKinnon publicly commended Mr. Collins for his responsible action as a citizen in affording protection to Annie Lee Harvey from defendant and defendant’s companion in crime, thereby saving her from being the victim of actual rape and possibly saving defendant from a sentence of death or…