State v. Williams

StukSS, Justice.

Appellant, a Negro bank employee and former foo-tball coach at Benedict College, Columbia, was convicted at the January term, 1951,-= of the Court of General Sessions for Richland County of conspiracy to defraud the State by the sale of answer keys for the State teachers’ examinations which were held in 1948 and 1949. It was a statewide “racket” of distressingly large proportions, which will be seen by reference to Pettiford v. State Board of Education, 218 S. C. 322, 62 S. E. (2d) 780, certiorari denied 341 U. S. 920, 71 S. Ct. 742, 95 L. Ed. 1354, and State v. Hightower, S.…