People v. Findley

Plaintiff in error, Edward F. Findley, was convicted in the circuit court of Lake county on an indictment of four counts, the first and second charging him with rape of Clara Snyder by force, and the third and fourth counts charging him with rape with her consent, she being thirteen years of age. The jury -found him guilty, fixed his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years and found him to be of the age of thirty-nine years. He prosecutes this writ of error to reverse the judgment.

Plaintiff in error was a resident of Mounds, Illinois, and formerly worked there for…