State v. Thompson

Devaney, Chief Justice.

This is a bastardy proceeding. The jury returned a verdict against Armer Thompson and found him to be the father of an illegitimate child born to Sybil Murray, an unmarried female. The chief assignment of error challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

It appears that the prosecutrix attended high school in Bagley, Minnesota, between September, 1930, and February, 1932. During her first year in school she made the acquaintance of the defendant herein. She kept company with him for approximately a year and a half and testified that during this…