People v. Loudenslager

Defendant was tried before a jury in circuit court on a charge of rape, and was convicted. The information in the case set forth a violation of section 520 of the penal code (PA 1931, No 328 [CL 1948, § 750.520 (Stat Ann § 28.788)]). It al leged that the offense was committed at the township of DeWitt, Clinton county, on the 31st of March, 1948, on a young woman 22 years of age, hereinafter referred to as the prosecutrix.

On the trial of the case it was the claim of the people that on the morning of the day referred to defendant, a man 36 years of age, was driving his automobile in a northerly…