State v. Morrow

Defendant Morrow assigns as error the order of the trial judge, entered upon motion of the solicitor, consolidating the armed robbery case and the rape case for trial. This assignment of error is overruled.

The State’s evidence presents these facts: About 10 p.m. on 21 December 1963 Charles E. Morrow was driving an automobile, with Warren Hill Summers riding in it as a passenger, on Highway 51 near Pineville. They came up behind an automobile driven by Sara Lee Guión, in which her husband Benny Guión was a passenger. Morrow said to Summers, “Let’s rape her”; Summers agreed. Whereupon, Morrow…