People v. Jansma

Respondent stands convicted of the charge of assaulting with intent to ravish and carnally know an unmarried woman, aged 20 years. For the people the testimony tended to prove that the complaining witness lived at home with her father, mother, and an aunt; that respondent had for some 10 years supplied the family with milk, calling at the house daily, usually between 12 -and 1 o’clock. He was a married man, on terms of friendly intimacy with the family, called the complaining witness Hazel, and she called him Peter. He had always conducted himself respectfully and in a gentlemanly manner,…