The PEOPLE v. Greeley

Mr. ChiEP Justice Daily

delivered the opinion of the court:

By an information filed in the circuit court of Winnebago County, the defendant, Nick Greeley, was charged with having committed statutory rape against a fifteen-year old girl. At the jury trial which followed on May 15, 1957, he was adjudged guilty of this crime and his punishment fixed at ten years imprisonment. Defendant’s motions for a new trial, in arrest of judgment, and for probation were subsequently denied and judgment entered upon the verdict. Writ of error has been prosecuted to this court.

At the time of the alleged offense,…