Legal Opinion

DeMund v. State

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided February 5, 1918PublishedCited by 5 opinions

ERROR to review a judgment of the circuit court for Dodge county: Martiet L. Lueck, Circuit Judge. Judgment was entered in this action in the court below June 30, 191J, adjudging the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, to be the father of a bastard child born alive on the 18th day of September, 1916. The defendant brings the record here by writ of error for review upon errors assigned.

1Opinion of the CourtKerwiet, J.

The principal error assigned is that the court below excluded evidence offered by the defendant to the effect that during the time the bastard child was begotten, namely, during the fore part of December, 1915, the complaining witness, mother of the bastard child, associated with men other than the defendant, at times and under circumstances indicating that she might have had illicit intercourse with them.

*41Early in the trial counsel for defendant asked Mrs. Brown, with whom complaining witness boarded in December, 1915, whether the complaining witness stayed at home evenings while she was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Kelly v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1901
  2. Zweifel v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
  3. Burris v. CourtNebraska Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Humphrey v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1891

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Huntingdon v. CrowleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1966
  2. Twining v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1964
  3. State v. KvenmoenNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1930
  4. Mensing. v. CroterCalifornia Supreme Court · 1930
  5. Twining v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1964

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