The People v. McKinnie

George E. McKinnie was indicted in the circuit court of Sangamon county for assault with intent to rape Emma Requarth. A jury trial resulted in a conviction and sentence to the Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester. Mc-Kinnie prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

The prosecution’s evidence shows that on November 12, 1926, Emma Requarth, a married woman upwards of forty-five years of age and a resident of the city of Springfield, went to Oak Ridge cemetery to decorate her son’s grave; that she arrived at the east gate of the cemetery about noon, walked to the new or…