Parker v. Dudley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint under the. bastardy act, Gen. Sts. c. 72, charging the respondent with being the father of a bastard child, alleged to have been begotten on or about July 6,1873, and born March 16,1874. Trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., who, after a verdict of guilty, allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows : The respondent denied the charge against him, and contended that one Waldo Parker and one Albert Matthews had intercourse with the complainant…
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Complaint under the. bastardy act, Gen. Sts. c. 72, charging the respondent with being the father of a bastard child, alleged to have been begotten on or about July 6,1873, and born March 16,1874. Trial in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., who, after a verdict of guilty, allowed a bill of exceptions in substance as follows : The respondent denied the charge against him, and contended that one Waldo Parker and one Albert Matthews had intercourse with the complainant within the period of gestation, before the birth of the child, and introduced evidence that the complainant, during…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The respondent had offered evidence tending to show that one Parker was the father of the child, and also that the complainant had sexual intercourse with one Matthews in July, 1873, in which month the child was begotten. In confirmation of this evidence, he desired to show that she had said in July, 1872, that she was engaged to Parker, and also that in 1872 she was friendly and intimate with Matthews, and that he was repeatedly with her in her bedroom in the night time, they being then fellow servants. So far as this evidence tended to show an engagement to Parker or intimacy with Matthews…
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