People v. Place

Defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Muskegon county of having, on February 3, 1923, assaulted and taken indecent liberties with the person of Cleo Spicer, a female child under the age •of 14 years, without committing or intending to commit the crime of rape. At the time the crime is charged to have been committed defendant Fred Place was general manager of the Merchants’ Collection Association, and he is claimed by the prosecution to have perpetrated it in the office of that association in the Rosen block in the city of Muskegon on the afternoon of Saturday, February 3, 1923,…