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State v. Roper

Citations

  • 260 S.E.2d 705
  • 274 S.C. 14
  • 1979 S.C. LEXIS 489

How courts have described this case

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  • reviewing court cannot consider error in exclusion of testimony unless the record shows what the rejected testimony would be
  • collecting state statutes and judicial 15 decisions that have departed from the common law definition of 16 robbery
  • finding probable cause existed to stop an automobile matching a witness’s description of two black males driving a late model, green Thunderbird with a red and white license tag bearing the letters “MVB” or “MVF”
  • finding probable cause existed to stop an automobile matching a witness's description of two black males driving a late model, green Thunderbird with a red and white license tag bearing the letters \MVB\ or \MVF\
  • no abuse of discretion to accept guilty verdict where juror eventually unequivocally assented to guilty verdict
  • a reviewing court may not consider error alleged in the exclusion of testimony unless the record on appeal shows fairly what the rejected testimony would have been

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Judges: Rhodes, Lewis, Littlejohn, Ness, Gregory

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