Collins v. State

In this case the defendant was convicted under sec. 4382, Stats., on the charge of rape upon a little girl not quite nine years old. Defendant was the janitor in an apartment house and lived in the basement, and the girl with her family lived in the adjoining building.

The testimony of the complaining witness was that defendant enticed her into his rooms during the absence of members of his family and that after persuasion he induced her to stand up against the wall; that he unloosed her clothing and while kneeling before her took out his privates and placed them between her legs; that on the…