Baird v. People ex rel. Wenderlandt

delivebed the opinion of the Coubt.

The appellant is the father of a child born of the relator, March "17, 1896. The only question made in the case is, whether he and she are married. There is not much difference in their statements as witnesses, that she yielded to his importunities, upon words between them, quite capable of being construed as words of a present marriage contract between them, in his bedroom, on the fourth night spent by them together there, followed at once by consummation.

But the verdict of the jury that he is the father of her bastard child, contradicts such construction.

It…