State v. Harvey

It is enough now to say that the evidence was such as to leave the question of defendant’s guilt of be.getting complainant’s child, then 9 months old, at the least •doubtful. Her story implicating him, appears not very probable, and her admission of having had intercourse with Waller a year previous to its conception, and sleeping alone in •a room accessible to. the latter continually up to that time, indicates, notwithstanding her denial of repetition, the pos■sibilily of its having been his offspring. So that the intro■duction of the immature child in evidence “for the jury to look at; * *…