People v. Allen

Plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted in the circuit court of Lee county at the January term, 1917, of the crime of assault with intent to commit rape upon Mrs. Emma Hewitt, a woman of the. age of fifty-three years, a resident of Amboy, Illinois. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled and the case is brought to this court by writ of error.

The defense was that of an alibi. The assault is alleged to have taken place on the night of October 12, 1916. Mrs. Hewitt testified that she left the Baptist church in Am-boy at 8 :3o that night in company with Mrs.…