State ex rel. Pepple v. Banik
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court/'Wells county; Burlce, Judge. Bastardy proceedings by tbe state, on the relation of Annie Pepple,, against Joe Banik. From a judgment adjudging him to be the father1 of the bastard child, defendant appeals. A litigant is entitled to select the jury from the entire panel present and competent to act.
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Appeal from District Court/'Wells county; Burlce, Judge. Bastardy proceedings by tbe state, on the relation of Annie Pepple,, against Joe Banik. From a judgment adjudging him to be the father1 of the bastard child, defendant appeals. A litigant is entitled to select the jury from the entire panel present and competent to act. People v. Edwards, 101 Cal. 543, 36 Pac. 7;. People v. Compton, 132 Cal. 484, 64 Pac. 849. A witness cannot give his opinion upon an inquiry embracing the1 whole merits of the case, leaving nothing for the jury. Betts v. Betts,. 113 Iowa, 111, 84 N. W. 975; Marshall v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, District Judge.
One Annie Pepple makes complaint under oath, charging that she is an unmarried woman, and that the defendant is the father of her unborn child, begotten on or about the 17th day of March, a. d. 1908, in Wells county. On or about the 15th day of November, 1908, the complaining witness was delivered of two bastard children, one of which died within a month of birth, and the other being alive at the time of trial. The defendant entered a general denial of the charge, and the case came on to be heard on the 16th day of February, 1909, at which time a verdict was rendered by a…
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