The People v. Bakutis

Plaintiffs in error Charles Bakutis and John Petkus were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of forcible rape. Their punishment was . fixed at one year in the penitentiary. They bring the cause here claiming insufficiency of evidence, errors in giving instructions and admitting evidence, and prejudicial conduct on the part of the State’s attorney.

The prosecuting witness, a young woman of twenty years of age, living on the south side in Chicago, testified that she lived with her brother and his family and was employed as a waitress in an ice-cream store operated by him; that on the…