State v. Green

Legge, Justice.

At the September, 1953, term of the Court of General Sessions for Richland County, appellant was convicted of rape and thereupon sentenced to death. His appeal presents three questions, to-wit:

1. Was it error for the trial court to admit testimony as to the result of a physical examination of appellant made at the jail while he was under arrest?

2. Was it error to admit in evidence the alleged confession which appellant had signed?

3. Was it error to admit in evidence certain bedclothes and articles of clothing?

The prosecutrix, Pearlena Jackson, a negro girl nine years of age,…