People v. Bark

Harry Bark, at the age of 17 or thereabouts, was convicted of statutory rape of Nina Arnold, who, at the time of the alleged offense, viz., the 28th day of June, 1928, was almost 13 years of age. The parties lived on a farm in the township of Forest, in Genesee county, where Nina worked for respondent’s family. It is claimed that about 2:30 in the afternoon of June 28, 1928, when respondent’s mother had gone to a neighboring farm in order to borrow some laundry soap, respondent asked the prosecutrix to come into his room, and there committed the crime while his brother held the door shut. The…