The PEOPLE v. Thomas

Edward Thomas, the defendant, was found guilty of rape after a trial before a judge of the criminal court of Cook County, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of thirty years. Upon this writ of error he urges that the State failed to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

The complaining witness and one Preston Burton testified that at about 9:00 P.M., on March 31, 1955, when they were walking in the vicinity of 35th Street and Lake Park Avenue in Chicago, they were accosted by the defendant, and compelled by him, at gunpoint, to walk across a foot bridge over the Illinois…