The People v. Braidman

Plaintiffs in error, David Braidman and Albert Serpe, were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of rape upon the person of Margaret Cook, a female of the age of thirteen years. A jury found them both guilty and fixed their punishment at ten years each in the State penitentiary. The court sentenced each of them to ten years imprisonment in the State reformatory at Pontiac. The record is before this court for review upon writ of error.

It is first contended by plaintiffs in error that the court erred in refusing to grant them a continuance. While the clerk’s transcript of…