Guinyard v. State

Lewis, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the lower court denying appellant’s petition for relief from a guilty plea entered to a violation of Section 32-1030 of the 1962 Code of Laws.

Appellant was indicted at the April 1971 term of the General Sessions Court for Richland County for rape and the violation of Code Section 32-1030. This statute makes it unlawful for any person to have sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee of any State mental health facility, and is as follows:

“Any person having sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee of any State mental health facility,…