Conley v. State

The defendant was being prosecuted for seduction, and the prosecutrix claimed that, as a result of the criminal intercourse which was brought about by the persuasion and promises of marriage of the defendant, the baby in the courtroom with her was his illegitimate child. As the illegitimate child had been identified by the prosecutrix before the jury, without objection, the trial judge did not commit prejudicial error in permitting the associate counsel for the 'State, in his argument to the jury, to contend that a resemblance existed between the child and the defendant, his putative father,…