State v. Sharpe

Moss, Justice.

Israel Sharpe, the appellant herein, was indicted at the 1959 June term of the Court of General Sessions for Beaufort County and charged with the crime of assault with intent to ravish. The indictment alleged that the crime took place on the night of May 5, 1959. The alleged victim was a young woman about twenty-one years of age. The presiding Judge appointed the firm of Dowling, Dowling and Sanders to represent the appellant because he was without employed counsel.

The appellant was tried and convicted at a special term of the Court of General Sessions held in Beaufort County,…