Benham v. State ex rel. Richardson

Best, C.

— This was a prosecution for bastardy. Judgment for the State. A motion-for a new trial was overruled, and this ruling is assigned as error. This motion embraced many reasons, none of which need be noticed, except the ruling of the court in refusing to allow the defendant to ask the relatrix, upon cross-examination, whether she had had sexual intercourse with other persons between certain dates near the time when the child was begotten. The child wTas born on the 22d day of February, 1881, and the testimony strongly tended to show that it was a well developed and fully matured child…