People v. O'Connor

Plaintiff in error, David O’Connor, was indicted, tried and convicted in the criminal court of Cook county in October, 1919, on the charge of rape and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of one year.

The plaintiff in error was thirty-one years of age at the time of the alleged offense and lived a short distance from the home of the complaining witness, Irene Myers. She was then two months under sixteen years of age. They had met casually, and, without having been formally introduced, had become acquainted through these chance meetings. On the day in question the plaintiff in error…