The People v. Krotz

Plaintiff in error, Charles G. Krotz, (herein referred to as the defendant,) was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county of a statutory rape on Iris E. Darnell, a female under sixteen years of age. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety-nine years, and the case comes to this court on a writ of error.

Iris E. Darnell testified that she lived in Broadview, in Cook county, from November, 1926, to September, 1928, when she moved with her parents to Melrose Park; that she was twelve years old, that she had never been married to defendant, and that she was in the sixth…