The PEOPLE v. Daugherty

In September of 1959, a jury in the circuit court of Cook County found the defendant, George Daugherty, guilty of taking indecent liberties with a child, and he was sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than 15 years. That judgment is now before the court upon a writ of error, which has been consolidated with a writ of error to review an order dismissing the defendant’s post-conviction petition.

The prosecuting witness testified that on January 4, 1959, when he was 14 years old, he visited the defendant’s apartment to watch television. The…