People v. Lemen

On December 17, 1905, Josie Voisin, a widow, lived with her two minor children, aged eleven and thirteen years, respectively, on a farm in St. Clair county, and her house stood about thirty or forty feet west of a public highway running north and south along the east side of the farm. In the evening of that day Ben Detienne, a married man, who lived in the neighborhood at some distance from Mrs. Voisin, was at her house from eight to about half-past nine, when he started to go home and she went out on the porch with him. On the east side of the road was a strip of timber containing eight or…