The People v. House

The defendant prosecuted this writ of error to the criminal court of Cook County to reverse its judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of the crime of assault with intent to commit rape, and sentencing him to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of one to fourteen years. He assigned as error the denial of his motion for discharge, made prior to trial.

The defendant was arrested on June 13, 1955; committed to jail for the alleged crime and confined there continuously until trial on December 1, 1955. The indictment was returned in open court and filed on September 12,…