Sidelinger v. Bucklin
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Complaint in bastardy made June 15, 1872, before one E. G. Webber, a trial justice of Knox county, wlio issued his warrant upon which the respondent was brought before Charles E. Blake, Esq., another trial justice of the county, who required him to give bond for his appearance at the next term of this court.
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On exceptions. Complaint in bastardy made June 15, 1872, before one E. G. Webber, a trial justice of Knox county, wlio issued his warrant upon which the respondent was brought before Charles E. Blake, Esq., another trial justice of the county, who required him to give bond for his appearance at the next term of this court. At the trial copies of the complaint and warrant, certified by Mr. Blake, were permitted to be used as pleadings and as proof that the complainant had made the requisite accusation, &c., although the respondent objected to their use. The complainant testified that she…
1Opinion of the CourtDanforth, J.
The complainant, under objection, was permitted to prove by a witness upon the stand, her own declarations, made both before and after her “accusation and examination,” that .the respondent was the father of her child. Such declarations are not admissible to prove that “she has continued constant in such accusation,” as they have no tendency to do so. They are entirely consistent with any number of different accusations.
*373Nor are they competent to sustain her credibility as a witness, the purpose for which they seem to have been used; for if her statements under oath are of doubtful credit,…
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