The People v. Garafola

Defendant, Sam Garafola, was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of assault with intent to commit rape. The cause is here by writ of error for a review.

Jeanna Bell, an unmarried woman twenty-one years of age, was employed at the time of the alleged assault, October 5, 1936, as a singer and entertainer at the Wharf Cafe in Chicago. Defendant, a bartender, and Daniel Callahan, a liquor salesman, came into the Wharf Cafe about two o’clock that morning just after prosecutrix and Pattie Sherwin, another entertainer, had finished their work and had changed to…