The People v. Okopske

Joseph Okopske was indicted at the March, 1925, term of the criminal court of Cook county for the rape of Genevieve Petrey. A jury trial resulted in a verdict finding him guilty and fixing his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled and judgment was rendered and sentence imposed. He seeks a review by this writ of error.

Okopske was a widower, fifty-five years of age. He had three children, Victoria, Stella and Simon, respectively seventeen, thirteen and eleven years of age, and resided with them in the basement of a…