The People v. Celmars

Mr. Chiep Justice DeYoung

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error, James Celmars, was convicted in the circuit court of Peoria county of the crime of rape and in accordance with the verdict of a jury was sentenced to twenty-three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

Myrtle Reese, the prosecutrix, white, unmarried and upwards of twenty-one years of age, and the plaintiff in error, colored, twenty-six years old, reside in the city of Peoria. The testimony of the prosecutrix is substantially as follows: On November…