People v. Schultz

Plaintiff in error was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of rape. He was found guilty and the punishment fixed at thirty years in the penitentiary. Motion for new trial was overruled and he was sentenced accordingly. This writ of error was then sued out.

The prosecuting witness was a young girl who at the time of the alleged assault was eleven years of age. She then resided with her step-father and her mother on West Ohio street, in Chicago. She testified that on the evening of February n, 1911, she left her home about six o’clock and purchased a. newspaper at a…