Boisvert v. Charest

On March 21, 1936, the complainant, seventeen years old, was delivered of a child. Eleven days previously she had sworn out a bastardy complaint against this respondent. Jury tried, he was adjudged to be its father. He attacks the verdict both by general and special motions, the latter based on alleged newly discovered evidence.

*221 General Motion

We are satisfied that the verdict should not be overturned on this motion. Even would this Court have come to a different conclusion in the first instance, we can not say that the jury was not warranted in returning its verdict. Foster v. Eastern Trust &…