People v. Doherty

This is an appeal from an order of filiation, made in Children’s Court, Schenectady County, on May 11, 1939. Defendant has been found to be the father of a child born out of wedlock on or about June 26, 1935. The application for the order was made by a deputy commissioner in the department of welfare of the city of Schenectady. The date of this application is not in the record, but it seems a fair inference that the application was made after the two-year period within which the mother might have made a complaint.

Although the testimony of the mother was not of the most satisfactory character,…