Harper v. State ex rel. Adamson
Indiana Supreme Court
From the Harrison Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtNiblack, J.
This was a prosecution, in the name of the State, and on the relation of Laura Adamson, against Abraham Harper for bastardy.
A jury found that the relatrix had been delivered of a bastard child, and that the defendant was its father, as charged. *111Numerous unavailing causes for a new trial were assigned and judgment followed upon the verdict.
The testimony of the relatrix and of the defendant respectively was irreconcilably conflicting, and very much of the evidence on both sides was either of an impeaching or a contradictory character.
Two of the causes assigned for a new trial were for newly…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Carver v. CarverIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
- Dailey v. State ex rel. CourtneyIndiana Supreme Court · 1867
- Rains v. BallowIndiana Supreme Court · 1876
- Dodds v. VannoyIndiana Supreme Court · 1877
- Myers v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1883
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- Powell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
- Reynolds v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1897
- Rahke v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1907
- Whitney v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1900
- Smith v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
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