Polochio v. People

delivered the opinion of the .court.

Plaintiff in error, nineteen years old, was tried on a charge of assault with intent to rape. On a verdict of guilty he was sentenced to the state reformatory. To re view that judgment he brings error. He is hereinafter referred to as defendant.

The charge was that defendant (and others) made an assault upon Ruby Sturgon with intent “forcibly, violently and against the will of the said Ruby Sturgon to ravish and carnally know her.” The principal errors alleged, and the only ones here necessary to notice are: (1) That the verdict is unsupported by the…