The People v. Drewell

Plaintiff in error, Henry Drewell, Jr., was in the circuit court of Macoupin county indicted, tried, convicted by a jury and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of a year and a day for the crime of statutory rape upon the person of Selma EichmeyerJ a girl of the age of fourteen years. He brings the record here for review on writ of error.

The first question presented is as to the sufficiency of the evidence. Defendant and the prosecuting witness lived with their respective parents on adjoining farms near Mount Olive. She testified to acts of intercourse beginning May 20,…