The People v. Dameron

Plaintiff in error, Stover Dameron, a boy seventeen years of age, prosecutes this writ of error to review the judgment of the circuit court of McLean county whereby he stands convicted of the crime of statutory rape upon the person of Bernadine Kite, a girl fifteen years of age, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one year.

Bernadine Kite testified that on a Sunday, either the 18th or 25th of May, 1930, but on which of these dates she could not definitely state, she left the League meeting at the Methodist church in Colfax, where she resided, went with two of her…