State ex rel. Gresham v. Wright

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was a proceeding under the statute to fasten parental responsibility on defendant for the maintenance and education of an illegitimate child born to Lucy Gresham, an unmarried girl twenty-two years old.

To the state’s information defendant pleaded not guilty. The cause was tried before a jury. It was shown that the prosecutrix and defendant had resided in Cheney and had attended high school there. When they were about twenty years old they began to indulge in sexual relations together. Later they attended different schools in Wichita,…