The People v. Crowe

Mr. Chiep Justice Fulton

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error, Harry Crowe, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county on July 30, 1943, for the crime of taking indecent liberties with a female child who, at the time of the crime on July 19, 1943, was not quite seven years eld, she having been bom on July 22, 1936. The trial was commenced before a jury on March 6, 1944, and the plaintiff in error was later convicted by the jury and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse that judgment.

At the time in question, the…