McQueary v. People

Plaintiff in error, defendant below, was convicted of the crime of statutory rape, and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary.

The defendant is a man of mature years; the prosecutrix a girl hut little more than sixteen years of age at the time the offense with which the defendant was charged and convicted was committed. She lived, and for some time had lived, in his family. According to the testimony of the prosecutrix it is not clear whether his first attempt to have intercourse with her was successful. A few weeks later, she testifies, he did succeed. She gives the date of the first assault…