State ex rel. Botts v. Stout

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

This is an appeal from the district court in a proceeding in which the defendant was found by a jury to be the. father of the bastard child of the relatrix, Mattie Botts.

When her child was born Mattie Botts was but 14 years and 3 months old, and the defendant was then a boy just past the age of 17. Their families lived in the village of Arkalon, and had been neighbors and friends for many years; the Stout family running a store, over which they lived on Main street, in the rear of which was the Botts residence, facing another street.

The…