State v. Abram

TUCKETT, Justice:

Defendant was found guilty in the District Court of Washington County of a violation of Chapter 60 of Title 77, Utah Code Annotated, 1953, as amended. After a trial was had a jury found the defendant to be the father of an illegitimate child born to the prosecutrix. From the judgment of conviction the defendant appealed to this court.

The defendant is here seeking the reversal of the conviction upon four assignments of error. It is the defendant’s contention that the Legislature having passed a Uniform Act on Paternity which is Section 78-45a-l, et seq., in the year 1965,…