The People v. Taylor

Defendant was, after a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, convicted of the offense of rape and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 45 years. This writ of error questions the propriety of the trial court’s admission of allegedly coerced confessions, which, it is argued, deprived defendant of due process of law.

The 80-year-old complaining witness testified that on December 24, 1959, at about 2 :oo A.M., she heard a noise at her apartment entrance. She thereupon engaged the “burglar chain” and partially opened the door. A man identified by the complaining…