The People v. Gardner

A jury found the defendant, Arthur Gardner, guilty of forcible rape and he was sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years. The appellate court affirmed, (61 Ill. App. 2d 326,) and we granted leave to appeal. The only issue that we find it necessary to discuss is whether the defendant’s guilt was proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

The complaining witness, Helen Davis, a widow, testified that at about 10:00 P.M. on September 15, 1963, her niece and her niece’s husband, with whom she had been listening to records, left her small, two-room apartment on the second floor…