The PEOPLE v. Richardson

Defendant, James Richardson, has brought a writ of error to this court to review his conviction in the criminal court of Cook County for the crime of assault with intent to commit rape.

Defendant, a licensed medical doctor, is an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist and a senior attending physician at the Provident Hospital in Chicago. He maintains a suite of offices on the second floor of a medical center building at 3233 South Park, Chicago, in which there are ten other doctors, all of whom have suites constructed to meet the requirements of their specialty.

The complaining witness is a…