State v. . Patterson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was PROCEEDING IN Bastardy, tried before Kerr, J. at December Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of Guileord-county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court- There was a verdict of guilty, and the defendant appealed-
1Opinion of the Court
ByNüM, J.
Upon her cross examination by the defendant,. ' the prosecutrix denied that she ever had sexual intercourse with Madison Hiatt. ■ Madison was afterwards introduced and testified that about four years before the child was begotten, and when he was a lad of eleven years of age, he had such intercourse with the prosecutrix. • The issue was whether Patterson was the father of the child, and it was wholly collateral to this issue, what had transpired four years before between the prosecutrix and the witness. The rule of evidence is thus stated in 1 Greenleaf, sec. 449: “But it is a well…
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