People v. Lacey

Defendant, Samuel Lacey, was indicted and tried for the crime of rape, was found guilty after a bench trial in the Criminal Court of Cook County, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 10 years.

The People presented the following proof: The prosecutrix, Katherine Thomas, returning home from church about 10:00 p.m., January 16, 1961, alighted from a bus at the corner of Douglas and Kedzie in the City of Chicago. She proceeded down Kedzie and had just crossed Troy when some boys approached her from behind and one grabbed her behind her neck. The boy who grabbed her said he had a…