The People v. Fitzgibbons

Plaintiff in error, Leonard Fitzgibbons, was in the criminal court of Cook county convicted of the crime of rape upon the person of Annabelle Whitney, a female of the age of fifteen years, and was sentenced to the penitentiary at Joliet for the term of one year.

Annabelle Whitney, a sister-in-law of plaintiff in error, came from Branch, Michigan, to live with plaintiff in error and his wife on April 23, 1929. She testified to acts of sexual intercourse at their home with plaintiff in error, the first of which was in the first week in May, 1929. A female physician testified for the State to…