The People v. Sciales

Michael Sciales was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for raping Helen Zabel on May 25, 1929, she then being fifteen years old and therefore under the statutory age of consent. A jury found Sciales guilty and fixed his punishment at one year in the penitentiary. By this writ of error the defendant seeks a review and reversal of the judgment.

The complaining witness, Helen Zabel, while in company with a friend, Alvin Ferris, met Sciales on the evening of May 24, 1929, at Riverview Park, in Chicago. Sciales had a car and about 11 :oo o’clock he drove Ferris and Helen to the vicinity…