The People v. Walker

Defendant was convicted of rape after a jury trial in the circuit court of St. Clair County, and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of thirty years. On this writ of error, defendant contends he was denied his statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial, and that the construction heretofore placed by this court upon the “four-month rule” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 38, par. 748) denies him equal protection of the laws under the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution.

The prosecuting witness testified that at approximately 3:2o o’clock A.M. on August 12, 1961, she…