People v. Boatman

The defendant, Essie Roatman, was charged in two separate indictments with commission of the offenses of rape and deviate sexual assault upon Glossie Davis and upon Dorothy Timms. The two causes were consolidated. After a trial before the court, without a jury, the defendant was found guilty of all four offenses and sentenced to serve 5 to 12 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary for each offense, the sentences to run concurrently.

The defendant, on appeal, contends (1) that he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because the testimony of the two complaining witnesses was…