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PEOPLE v. McGUIRK

Gen. No. 51,584.

106 Ill. App.2d 266 (1969)

245 N.E.2d 917

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nathaniel McGuirk, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

February 20, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Professor James R. Thompson, Northwestern University School of Law, and James J. Doherty, and Marshall J. Hartman, Assistant Public Defenders, of counsel), for appellant.

John J. Stamos, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Howard Levine, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Nathaniel McGuirk was sentenced to twenty to thirty years in the penitentiary after being found guilty, in a nonjury trial, of rape and indecent liberties.

The prosecutrix, a nine-year-old girl, was mistreated and raped by McGuirk who was the janitor of the building in which she lived. In the early afternoon of August 14, 1964, he pulled her down the basement stairs and into his apartment. After he overcame...

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