Harlan v. People

Defendant was convicted of an assault to commit rape, and was sentenced to a term in the penitentiary. He comes here hy writ of error and says that the court should have directed a verdict finding him not guilty, because of the insufficiency of the evidence, *399and that the court erred in the giving of instructions.

The defendant, a dentist, had been' employed by the prosecuting witness to make her a set of false teeth. At the time her natural teeth were extracted the defendant administered a local anaesthetic. A few days thereafter a protuberance was discovered in her mouth, and she returned to…