Rogers v. People

Graver J:

Plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of rape upon Rachel Betten, a girl about eighteen years old. The offense was alleged to have been 'committed in January, 1875, near Mill Creek, in St. Clair county, and the testimony tended to show that it was in the woods near the road, and in plain view of it. She swore that in passing along the highway from a place called Ruby, towards her father’s house, she fell in Avith defendant, and walked and conversed Avith him; that he insisted on carrying an oil can she had Avith her, and asked her to go into the woods to see an animal he said…