Sutton v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign County; the Hon. F. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Before the trial defendants entered a motion for a continuance on the ground of the absence of Mrs. Hulse, based upon the affidavit of the defendants’ attorney, which stated that the defendants expected to prove by Mrs. Hulse that the prosecutrix came to the house of Mrs. Hulse the next morning after the alleged rape and remained there until the time of the preliminary…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign County; the Hon. F. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Before the trial defendants entered a motion for a continuance on the ground of the absence of Mrs. Hulse, based upon the affidavit of the defendants’ attorney, which stated that the defendants expected to prove by Mrs. Hulse that the prosecutrix came to the house of Mrs. Hulse the next morning after the alleged rape and remained there until the time of the preliminary examination before the justice of the peace, and some days after; that she did not make any complaint to her about the commission…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
At the September term, 1891, of the Circuit Court of Champaign county, an indictment was returned against plaintiff in error, Thomas Blakesly, and Clara Cunningham, charging that, “on the 16th day of June, at and in the county of Champaign, and State of Illinois (the defendants named), feloniously and forcibly did make an assault, in and upon one Nellie Huhm, then and there being a female, and the said Frank Sutton, then and there being a made person of the age of fourteen years and upwards, did then and there feloniously have carnal knowledge of the said Nellie Huhrn, forcibly and against…
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