People v. Kelly

This is an appeal from a judgment of the juvenile court ordering appellant, as father of Richard Lee Kelly, who had previously been adjudged a ward of said juvenile court, to pay the sum of $42.50 per month for the support and maintenance of said child. The sole ground urged upon appeal is the insufficiency of the evidence to establish the relationship of father and child between appellant and the ward of the court.

On the hearing an uncertified document signed only with a rubber stamp “Wilton L. Halverson, M.D., Registrar of Vital Statistics” was introduced in evidence, not only without…