Ervin v. Bass

Appellee became enceinte in July, 1932. On December 24, 1932, appellee and appellant were ceremonially married; appellant knowing at the time of appellee’s condition and that he was the putative father of the unborn child. The child was born on April 5, 1933. On July 1, 1933, the marriage was annulled by a decree of the chancery court, on the ground that the ceremony had been the result of coercion and duress. On December 9', 1933, appellee instituted a bastardy proceeding against appellant, and obtained judgment, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

Conception during wedlock is not essential…