The People v. Triplett

Defendant Frank Triplett was convicted of attempted rape in a 1968 Cook County circuit court jury trial, and was sentenced to a term of four to ten years imprisonment. In this direct appeal, he questions the admissibility of the complaining witness’s in-court identification and also claims that he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; particularly, that the State failed to prove the essential element of intent to commit rape.

The complaining witness first testified in the course of a pretrial hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress her in-court identification, and, following a…