State v. Wiebke

Defendant was found guilty in a bastardy proceeding, and he appeals from the judgment.

Alma Wiemerslage, an unmarried woman, gave birth to a child October 14, 1918. She charged defendant with being its father, claiming that the first illicit relations with him occurred shortly after the middle of February, 1918, while she was working for an uncle. Defendant admitted such relations both before and after the birth of the child, but insists that they did not begin until the last part of April, 1918. The medical testimony is conclusive that a child born in the middle of October could live but a…