Pratt v. Rawson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Prosecution for bastardy, the overseer of the poor of Jamaica prosecuting. Trial by jury, at the April Term, 1867, Barrett, J., presiding. Upon the trial the prosecutrix testified that she was a single woman and bad never been married ; that she had a child which was begotten at her father’s house in Jamaica, on the 14th day of May, 1864, and was borh on the 17th day of February, 1865, and that the defendant was the father of said child.
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Prosecution for bastardy, the overseer of the poor of Jamaica prosecuting. Trial by jury, at the April Term, 1867, Barrett, J., presiding. Upon the trial the prosecutrix testified that she was a single woman and bad never been married ; that she had a child which was begotten at her father’s house in Jamaica, on the 14th day of May, 1864, and was borh on the 17th day of February, 1865, and that the defendant was the father of said child. Upon cross-examination she testified, among other things, that she first saw the defendant at the house of one Newton Howard, in December, 1863 ; that in the…
1Opinion of the Court
*188The opinion of the court was delivered by
Prout, J.
Upon the argument, but two exceptions taken to the dicisions of the county court ai*e relied upon by the defendant.
L it is claimed that the charge to the jury as to the testimony of the experts, introduced by the defendant, was erroneous. Three witnesses were called for the purpose of proving that certain papers produced on the trial, were in the handwriting of the prosecutrix. The opinion of one of them, called to testify to this point, is based upon his acquaintance with the prosecutrix, and his knowledge of her handwriting; of the other,…
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