Addington v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

The appellant, Ernest Addington, was convicted of the crime of rape and sentenced to death.

Nora Coleman, the prosecuting witness, testified that her home is at Kings Mountain in Lincoln County; that she is nineteen years of age, and that for some time prior to December 19, 1942, she had been working in Cincinnati, Ohio; that during the afternoon of that date, she left Cincinnati by bus and arrived at Kings Mountain road where she got off the bus about 9 o ’clock p. m.; that appellant, with whom she was acquainted, and one Oran Jones whom she did…