Dailey v. State ex rel. Courtney

— This was a prosecution for bastardy. On the cross-examination of the prosecuting witness, she answered that she did not tell Mrs. Dyer, in May, 1865, “that I (she) had been too much with men,” or, “that I (she) had been acting bad with men.” She stated, also, that she did not tell John Henry, in the spring of 1865, that she “had beén acting bad with men.” On behalf of the defendant, Mrs. Dyer testified that a few days before the child was born, the prosecuting witness told her that she “ had been too much with men.”

The State proved, over the exception of the defendant, by several witnesses,…