State v. Hickman

It is presumed that a child born in wedlock is the legitimate child of that marriage unless it is shown that the husband could not have had access to the spouse at a time when the child could have been conceived or that the husband was impotent or that other circumstances would prevent the husband from being the father of the child. See State v. Key, 248 N.C. 246, 102 S.E. 2d 844 (1958). Hickman admitted that he dated Joan on 15 March 1968 and that he knew she was pregnant when he married her. It would be anomalous for him to try to prove after that admission that he, in effect, did not have…