Hanawalt v. State

This was an action to charge the plaintiff in error with the support and maintenance of a bastard child. On the trial in the circuit court the state was permitted, against the objection of the plaintiff in error, to bring into court, and exhibit to the jurors for their inspection, as evidence in the case, the child of which he was charged with being the father; such child then being less than one year old. This is assigned as error in this conrt. The plaintiff also assigns as error that the counsel for the state was permitted to comment to the jury and draw their attention to the alleged…