Wistrand v. People

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of rape upon one Annie Kaplan, a girl thirteen years of age, and his punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one and one-half years. To reverse that judgment this writ of error has been sued out.

The only errors assigned are, that the court erred in denying the motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, and in pronouncing sentence. Many grounds of reversal are called to our attention, but under these general assignments of error, and the indefinite manner in which the…