People v. Perry

Defendant was complained of, arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced in the circuit court of Otsego county to State prison for not more than 10 nor less than 5 years for the crime of feloniously assaulting and carnally knowing one Gladys L. Allen, a female under the age of 16 years. When brought before the committing magistrate he stood mute and.offered no testimony upon the preliminary examination there had. When arraigned in open court he also stood mute and on trial introduced no testimony except that of a physician as to the period of gestation. The assignments of error most strenuously…