The People v. Schiro

Frank Schiro, charged in different counts of an indictment with both statutory and forcible rape, waived a jury trial, was found guilty by a judge of the criminal court of Cook county “in manner and form as charged in the indictment,” and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. He seeks reversal of the judgment by this writ of error because (1) the age of the prosecutrix was not sufficiently proved by competent evidence; (2) the People failed to produce corroborative evidence to support the story of the prosecutrix as against defendant’s denial of the charge; and (3) the evidence…