Addison v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Mercer county of an assault upon Minnie Glancey, a girl thirteen years of age, with intent to commit rape, and was sentenced to the penitentiary.

The evidence for the People tended to prove an assault upon said Minnie Glancey, without her consent and against her will, with the intent charged, at the office of the defendant, who was a veterinary surgeon in Aledo, at about four o’clock in the afternoon of August 31, 1900. The People, as a part of their case in chief, were permitted, against the objection of defendant, to introduce evidence…