People v. Blanch

Plaintiff in error, Hubert Blanch, was found guilty in the circuit court of Macoupin county of rape upon a girl aged about twelve years and was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. He brings the case to this court by writ of error.

The prosecuting witness, Anna Mabel VanMeter, testified that she lived in Carlinville and at the time of the occurrence was in the seventh grade of the public schools; that in the evening of January 6, 1922, she and Hilda Murphy, aged seventeen years, with a sister-in-law of the prosecuting witness, Mrs. Anna VanMeter, went to a picture show, and sitting…