Siefker v. State

FOSTER, C.

In this action Pearl Johnson a resident of Kiowa county, Okla., accuses Ed Siefker as being the father of her illegitimate child. The court allowed evidence to go to the jury: First, of sexual intercourse before the period of gestation; and. second, evidence of a promise to marry, both of which are by proper assignments set up as error.

The first proposition above stated has been before many courts, and the weight of authority is to the effect that acts of intercourse, before the alleged act resulting in conception, are admissible as bearing on the probability of the intercourse at…