State Ex Rel. Gilman v. Bacon

The appellant, Marlin Bacon, who will hereinafter be referred to as the defendant, was forty years of age at the time of the hearing in the trial court in which the court’s judgment was filed on November 29, 1957. The child whose custody is involved, known as Allen Eugene Bacon, was six. About the year 1942 the defendant was living" in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He was married in that year to Mary Elizabeth Miller and lived with her until about January 17, 1953, when she died. Apparently this marriage was harmonious. In the year 1942 they took into their home a six-weeks-old baby, known in the…