People v. Scott

The defendant was found guilty of rape in a non jury trial and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten to twenty years.

His theory on appeal is that the judgment of conviction should be reversed because the indictment did not specify the nature and elements, or the time and place of the alleged offense; that the State failed to prove the use of force; that the testimony of the complaining witness was so improbable that it was inadequate to sustain his conviction, and that the trial court erred in permitting the State to question him on the details of a prior conviction for rape.

The…