State v. Bradford

Lewis, Justice:

Defendant has appealed from his conviction, in November, 1967 of the crime of rape. The jury recommended mercy and he received a sentence of forty years. The judgment is affirmed.

Although appellant denied the charge of rape, the testimony convincingly established his guilt. The State’s evidence showed that the offense, for which appellant was convicted, occurred in a rural section of Sumter County, South Carolina, during the late afternoon of April 14, 1967. The prosecutrix had driven her car to a fish pond on her property and parked it while she fished alone from a boat. In…