Akeson v. Doidge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint in bastardy process under R. L. c. 82, § 1, received and sworn to on December 18, 1911, in the First District Court of Southern Middlesex. In the Superior Court the defendant was tried before Brown, J., and was found guilty. The defendant alleged exceptions to the admission of certain evidence, which are described in the opinion. The case was submitted on briefs.
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The complainant accused the defendant of being the father of her child born March 22, 1912. The complaint in the First District Court of Southern Middlesex, was made on December 18, 1911, and in October, 1915, in the Superior Court, the defendant was found guilty.
The complainant was a witness and testified that the defendant was the father of her child. Subject to the defendant’s exception, she stated that on March 22, 1912, in the time of her travail, after her labor pains began and before the birth of the child, she accused the defendant of being the father. The doctor, her mother and a…
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