Legal Opinion
State v. Register
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided August 12, 1996No. 24479PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Burnett, Justice:
Appellant, Johnnie Kenneth Register, II, was convicted of murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC), kidnapping, buggery and sodomy. Register received a life sentence for murder, thirty years consecutive for CSC, and five years consecutive for buggery and sodomy. Because the kidnapping resulted in murder, there was no sentence for the kidnapping conviction. We affirm.
*474FACTS
On November 17, 1991, two deer hunters found the mutilated body of seventeen-year-old Crystal Faye Todd (Victim) in a ditch on a dirt road in Horry County. The Victim had over thirty different cuts…
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