Thistle v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of burglary with intent to rape, and, being but nineteen years of age, was sentenced to the state reformatory. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ, alleging: 1. The evidence was insufficient; 2. There was prejudicial misconduct of a bailiff; 3. There was prejudicial misconduct of the jury; 4. Four of defendant’s tendered instructions were erroneously refused; 5. Instruction No. 6, given, was erroneous; 6. Instruction No. 11, given, was erroneous.

1. Unquestioned evidence established that a young married woman,…