State v. Stevens

Nelson, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the District Court of Douglas County denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.

Defendant, Jerome Stevens, was found guilty by a jury on October 12, 1966, of being the father of an illegitimate child born to one Kathleen Walberg, prosecutrix herein.

The prosecutrix and defendant worked at a nursing home in the Twin Cities area. Both were in their late teens at the time the child was conceived. Both admitted to having intercourse on two separate occasions and are in agreement as to where the acts occurred. The…