People v. Arnold

At the March term, 1910, of the circuit court of Stephenson county, the plaintiff in error, Benjamin A. Arnold, a physician and surgeon living in Freeport, in said county, and practicing there, was found guilty by a jury of the crime of rape upon Alta Rosenstiel on July 8, 1908, when she was fifteen years and eleven months of age, and his punishment' was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of four years. • He was sentenced in accordance with the verdict.

There was a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that Alta Rosenstiel and her father and mother were all present…