People v. Lewis

Plaintiff in error was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Montgomery county for the crime of rape. A verdict of guilty was returned and he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

The evidence on the part of the People tended to show that on the evening of October 9, 1910, plaintiff in error, a young man twenty-seven years of age, drove to the home of a neighbor, Luther Weller, and while there Margaret Ann Weller, a lady about fifty-nine years of age, together with her two little grand-daughters, aged six and eleven years, respectively, came to the same place; that plaintiff in…