The People v. Pargone

Patsy Pargone was convicted of rape and sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has sued out a writ of error to review the record, assigning errors in the admission of evidence, the giving and refusing of instructions, the conduct of the State’s attorney during the trial, and the sufficiency of the evidence.

Bessie Mikle, the complaining witness, is a colored woman who had been employed as a maid in Chicago at one place for more than five years but at the time of the commission of the crime was not working, having recently returned from a hospital. She occupied a…