Wells v. Fulton

TMs is an appeal on questions of law from the judgment of the Common Pleas Court of ■ Montgomery County, Ohio, Division of Domestic Relations, in a bastardy proceeding in which the jury rendered a verdict of guilty.

The defendant, appellant herein, assigns as error that the verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence; that plaintiff failed to prove defendant’s guilt by a preponderance of the evidence; that the court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial; and that the action is improperly brought in the name of the state of Ohio.

On the principal factual issue, i.…