The PEOPLE v. Henson

At a bench trial in the circuit court of DeWitt County defendant, Todd Henson, was found guilty of rape and sentenced to three to six years in the penitentiary. The indictment charged that on April 23, 1962, Henson had sexual intercourse with the complaining witness, a girl of 16, by force and against her will. The defendant seeks a reversal of the judgment on the grounds of insufficiency of proof and error in permitting one of the State’s witnesses to become a court’s witness without proper cause.

At approximately 10:30 on the evening of April 23, 1962, the defendant and two other boys, Smith…