Shank v. State ex rel. Robinson

This was a prosecution for bastardy, resulting in a judgment against the defendant.

Three questions are presented for our consideration.

1. The prosecutrix, in her examination in chief, having testified, without objection, that her father was still living, so far as she knew, but had ceased to five with her mother for six or seven years, was asked, on cross-examination, why her father had left her mother. An objection to this question was sustained, and we think correctly. The whole subject had nothing whatever to do with the issue, to-wit: the paternity of the child with which the prosecutrix…