People v. Johnson

Plaintiff in error, Frank Johnson, was convicted in the circuit court of Bureau county of the crime against children and was sentenced to the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse that judgment on the grounds that the complaining witness was incompetent, that the verdict is against the evidence, that the court erred in refusing an instruction, and that the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial.

Plaintiff in error is sixty-nine years of age and has lived in the city of Princeton for more than fifty years. The complaining witness, Alice Pierson, was eight years of age…