Richards v. State

1. The testimony relative to the illegitimacy of the child showed that the husband and wife were married about five months before the birth of the child, lived together about six months, and then the' husband left the wife, refused to support the minor child, and told two witnesses that the child was not his, and he “wasn’t going to keep up some child that wasn’t his.”

2. The defendant excepted to a charge to the jury, that if the husband “lived with the mother after the birth of the child, he thereby acknowledged that it was his child, and is estopped from denying it.” We do not think this…