Humbert v. Smith

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

An Indiana statute aimed at expediting admission of blood tests in paternity cases conflicts with the Indiana Rules of Evidence and thus would normally be void. We have decided to assent to the statute.

During a trial to establish the paternity of her child, Kristy Lynn Smith testified that Tormy L. Humbert, Jr. was the father. Humbert and Smith had one sexual encounter nine months before the child's birth. A court-ordered blood test established a 99.97 percent probability that Humbert is the biological father of the child. Smith had sexual relations with two other men…