McCoy v. People

This is a prosecution for bastardy, and is now, for the second time, brought to this .court by the appeal of the defendant.

Mary Hilger, the prosecutrix, positively swears that she is the mother of a child, in the law deemed a bastard, of which the defendant is the father. The defendant quite as positively denies, under oath, his paternity of the child, and that he has had illicit sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix.

We should, under the circumstances, be extremely reluctant to disturb the verdict of the jury, were we not clearly satisfied that injustice has been done the defendant by the…