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· 3/14/1973

Guinyard v. State

Citations

  • 195 S.E.2d 392
  • 260 S.C. 220
  • 1973 S.C. LEXIS 339

How courts have described this case

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  • affirming conviction under statute that prohibited having sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee at any state mental health facility despite defendant’s claim that the victim’s status was not known to him
  • finding statute prohibiting sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee of mental health facility was neither constitutionally vague nor defective despite Legislature’s failure to make knowledge of the institutional status of the person molested an element of the offense
  • finding statute prohibiting sexual intercourse with a patient or trainee of mental health facility was neither constitutionally vague nor defective despite Legislature's failure to make knowledge of the institutional status of the person molested an element of the offense

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Judges: Lewis, Moss, Bussey, Brailsford, Littlejohn, JJ-

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