The People v. Dabbs

The defendant, Howard Dabbs, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the infamous crime against nature upon and with one George Hughes, and the cause is before this court on writ of error.

The record shows that the prosecuting witness, Hughes, was about seventeen years of age and in the eighth grade at school; that he had run away from home on several occasions; that on March 28, 1937, he left home and in the afternoon of the following day came to the office of defendant, a practicing physician about fifty-two years of age, whom he knew slightly. He informed defendant that he was…