Beers v. Jackman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint made November 23, 1868, under the Gen. Sts. c. 72, that the complainant was pregnant with a child begotten by the defendant at Lawrence on or about April 15, 1868, which, if born alive, might be a bastard. In the police court of Lawrence, to which the complaint was returned, the defendant, after due hearing, was required to give bond to appear and answer to it at the next term of the superior court.
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Complaint made November 23, 1868, under the Gen. Sts. c. 72, that the complainant was pregnant with a child begotten by the defendant at Lawrence on or about April 15, 1868, which, if born alive, might be a bastard. In the police court of Lawrence, to which the complaint was returned, the defendant, after due hearing, was required to give bond to appear and answer to it at the next term of the superior court. In the.superior court, the complainant, on February 19,1869, further complained that, on December 30,1868, she was delivered of a male child, which was still living and was born a…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
It would have been, perhaps, more according to the usual course, for the complainant to have introduced the letter of August 26 in reply to the defendant’s case, relying in the first instance upon positive testimony that the child was begotten in April following. The answer contained a denial of the complainant’s allegation, and a charge of conspiracy to defraud; and the order in which competent evidence, under the issue raised, should be introduced, was here in the discretion of the judge.
In proof of unlawful sexual intercourse, the adulterous disposition of the parties at the time may be…
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