People v. O'Brien

The defendant was convicted of the crime against nature, committed upon the body of a boy 11 years of age. On the trial the only direct evidence as to who perpetrated the offense was that of the boy upon whom it was inflicted. On the day of the alleged crime, the complainant and his brother, 8 years of age, in company with another boy, 10 years old, were on a railroad track, near a piece of woods, when, as they all testify, they met the defendant, who invited them to go with him to the woods to ride a pony, and gave them 25 cents to induce them to accompany him to the woods. That he…