The People v. Rogers

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Wabash county of the crime of taking indecent liberties with a female child under the age of fifteen years. The indictment consists of two counts. The first charges that plaintiff in error, a person of the age of seventeen years and upwards, “unlawfully and feloniously did take certain immoral, improper and indecent liberties with a female child under the age of fifteen years and of the age of thirteen years, to-wit, Laura May Painter, with intent then and there of arousing, appealing to and gratifying the lusts, passion and sexual…