Conners v. State

The plaintiff in error, John Conners, was tried, at the last March term of the circuit court for Racine county, upon an information charging that he had committed the crime of rape upon the person of one Caroline Ortell, on the 25 th of February, 1879. The trial resulted in a verdict of *524guilty, and the court sentenced him to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of ten years.

The prosecutrix testified that in the evening of that day, at about half past eight o’clock, Conners came to the house where she was at work in the city of Racine, with a horse and cutter, and, under the false…