People v. Pazell

By an indictment returned in the criminal court of Cook County, the defendant, Paul Pazell, was charged with the crime of taking indecent liberties with a child. The lesser offense of contributing to the delinquency of a child was included in the second count of the indictment. A jury found defendant guilty of indecent liberties and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than two years.

At the time of the trial, defendant was fifty-eight years of age and had been employed by a large packing company in Chicago for thirty years. He…