The People v. Fitzgibbons

Plaintiff in error was found guilty in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime against nature upon and with one Kenneth F. Hoffman, a boy of the age of seven years. The indictment consisted of four counts. The first charged the crime against nature. All but the first were nolle prossed at the close of the People’s evidence.

The conviction is based on the testimony of the complaining witness, Kenneth F. Hoffman, and Bobby Zeisler, another boy seven years old. Their evidence tends to show that on the afternoon of July 9, 1930, at about 4:00 or 5 :oo o’clock, as they were passing plaintiff…