State v. Grant

Littlejohn, Justice:

The defendant, Nathaniel Thomas Grant, was convicted by a jury of robbing a citizen in a parking lot at Charleston. He appeals.

The person who committed the act fled the scene. The victim of the robbery gave a description of the perpetrator of the offense and police officers went to a house in the general vicinity in quest of the culprit. The defendant, who was at the house, saw the officers coming, slammed the door and ran out the back. He was apprehended and subsequently indicted.

After all of the evidence had been submitted, the solicitor requested that the judge charge…