Schuh v. State

Defendant contends that the court erred in •refusing to set aside the verdict and to discharge the defendant because there existed, as a matter of law, a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt. While an illegitimacy proceeding is a civil action, the law requires proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Jacobsen v. State, 205 Wis. 304, 310, 237 N. W. 142; Gillis v. State, 206 Wis. 150, 154, 238 *181N. W. 804; State ex rel. Mahnke v. Kablitz, 217 Wis. 231, 258 N. W. 840.

The complaining witness, at the time of the birth of her child, was seventeen years of age. At the time of the trial,…