Franey v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Livingston county of an assault upon Essie Gimpel with intent to commit rape, and was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary.

The following facts proved at the trial were not in dispute: On July 13,1903, Essie Gimpel, who was about seventeen and a half years old and had been married three months, lived with her husband, Chris Gimpel, in a farm house facing north, three or four rods from a road running east and west and several rods from a road running north and south. On that morning, at about half-past six, the defendant, Robert…