Bean v. People

At the October term, 1887, of the Winnebago circuit court, the plaintiff in error was indicted for, tried, and convicted of the crime of rape, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year. He brings this writ of error for the reversal of the judgment.

It is insisted that the evidence does not support the verdict. It appears from the testimony, that the alleged offence was committed upon the prosecutrix in her father’s garden, about twelve rods from the house, on the evening of May 19,1887,— a pleasant evening, when it was “middling light,”—at about seventeen minutes past…