State v. Walters

Herrmann, J.,

(instructing the jury):

As is usual in cases of this kind, the State’s case rests entirely upon the testimony of the child’s mother. She has testified that she had sexual intercourse with the defendant about the middle of the month of October 1949, the exact date of which she is uncertain, and the State contends that the conception of the child resulted from that relationship. However, the mother has also testified that she had sexual relations with a man other than the defendant, before the end of the month of October, 1949.

I am of the opinion that the mother’s competency as a…