People v. Lakin

A complaint was filed against the defendant, Henry Lakin, charging him with assaulting and taking indecent liberties with a girl 12 years of age, without committing or attempting to commit the crime of rape. At the examination in justice court the girl gave testimony from which it appears that at a time when she was in defendant’s shoe repair shop he sought, by asking, to have her engage with him in indecent conduct, and offered her a quarter if she would accede to his wishes. He then placed his hand on her knee. At the time the overtures by speaking were made, the defendant was five feet…