The People v. Claussen

Mr. ChiEE Justice Farthing

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Fred Claussen, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of statutory rape of a fifteen-year-old girl, Stephanie Froncek, on September 12, 1936. He was tried by the court without a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years. He has sued out this writ of error.

The prosecutrix testified that on September 12, 1936, she was just past fifteen years of age. She had known the defendant, a janitor at the Hamilton piano factory in Chicago, for about three years. A few…