Timm v. State

There was no love between this man and woman; only lust. Their testimony makes it clear that they had no wish or intent to marry. Their fornication was casual, for their mutual gratification, without sentiment or pretense of fidelity to each other. Now the woman has an illegitimate child which she attributes to the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the “defendant.” The question before the trial court was whether the evidence established him to be the father beyond a reasonable doubt. The question before us, upon a review of the record, is whether reasonable doubt of such fatherhood…