People v. Moore

The defendant, Phillip Moore, who was convicted of attempt with intent to rape in a non jury trial and sentenced to five to ten years in the penitentiary, contends in this appeal that the State’s evidence was insufficient to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and that, at best, the evidence would only sustain a finding of assault, not of attempt with intent to commit rape.

The complaining witness testified that on a rainy morning, April 27, 1964, she spent an hour in a tavern near Wilson Avenue and Sheridan Road, Chicago. She entered the tavern about 9:00 a. m., had three or four…