The People v. Klemann

Walter R. Klemann, plaintiff in error, was indicted and tried in the circuit court of Lake county, on a statutory charge of taking immoral, improper and indecent liberties with a certain male child of the age of thirteen years, in violation of the Criminal Code. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 38, par. 109.) He was found guilty by a jury and motions made' at the close of the evidence to strike the testimony of the complaining witness and to find the defendant not guilty were overruled. After a verdict, motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied and plaintiff in error was…