People v. Kingcannon

Plaintiff in error, John Kingcannon, was convicted in the circuit court of Winnebago county of the crime of rape and by the judgment of the court was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years.

The first count of the indictment charges plaintiff in error with statutory rape, and avers, in substance, that he was on July 10, 1915, a male person of the age of seventeen years and upwards, and that on said day, in said county, he unlawfully and feloniously did make an assault upon Rosie Hunt, then and there being a female person under the age of sixteen years, to-wit,…