State v. Van Guilder

1 Reported in 271 N.W. 473. Defendant appeals from a judgment, entered pursuant to verdict, determining his paternity of an illegitimate child born to the complaining witness January 10, 1935.

The case is unusually free from the controversy commonly found in cases of this nature. For the state the following facts could be found by the jury: On the early morning (three to four a. m.) of May 3, 1934, the complaining witness and defendant had sexual relations. Her last menstrual period preceding was on April 6, 1934. She testified that in the ordinary course her next period would commence about a…