The People v. Hornaday

Plaintiff in error, Louis Hornaday, 26 years of age, was found guilty by the criminal court of Cook County of forcible rape and was sentenced April 3, 1947, to the penitentiary for fifteen years. He brings the case here on writ of error seeking to reverse the judgment.

On October 28, 1946, at about 1:3o A.M., the prosecuting witness was waiting at Sixty-third Street and Dorchester Avenue in Chicago for a bus to take her home. A car stopped near her when a man got out and walked to a nearby newsstand. A moment later she was struck in the back of the head, a hand was placed over her mouth and…