People v. Stowers

Per Curiam :

Plaintiffs in error were found guilty of the crime of rape at the November term, 1911, of the circuit court of Perry county, and sentenced to imprisonment in the reformatory at Pontiac. The indictment upon which they were tried consisted of three counts, the first charging that plaintiffs in error, being male persons of the age of seventeen years and upwards, feloniously and unlawfully made an assault upon one Eva Crane, a female child of the age of ten years, and her, the said Eva Crane, did then and there carnally know and abuse. The second count charged that plaintiffs in…