People v. Andrews

There are 2 issues in this criminal appeal. One relates to venue and the other to the problem of the recanting witness. Enough of the sordid facts will be given to frame a context for discussion of these issues.

The appellant was charged with statutory rape apon his then 11-year-old daughter. In the evening of the day on which the offense was alleged to have been committed, her father took, her in his car to purchase groceries. It was a Nash automobile and the seats could be made down into a bed. Her father, she says, took her out near the Michigan Baptist Children’s Home, “1, 2, or 3 yards…