Watkins v. State

Under the rule obtaining in petitions for certiorari from the Court of Appeals to this Court, we may look to the original record for the ruling on evidence on which the reversal is rested:

“The state in rebuttal offered the profert of the baby. The defendant objected to the profert of the baby before the jury because it was incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial testimony, and as it was a case of seduction and not of bastardy, the profert of the baby was inadmissible for any purpose. The court overruled the defendant’s objection and the defendant excepted. The profert of the baby was then made…