People v. Luberto

Cochrane, P. J.:

Mildred Lewis, seventeen years old, was walking to the home of her married sister. She left the highway near the residence of the defendant and proceeded across the fields. In climbing a line fence between the farm of the defendant and that occupied by her sister and family her clothing was caught and held by a barbed wire. The defendant had followed from the highway as he claims for the purpose of turning his cattle into a different field. He helped her disentangle her clothing and then assaulted her in a manner detailed by her, which if true leaves no doubt of the propriety…