State Ex Rel. Stubblefield v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Issue of -Bastardy tried before Clark, J. at Spring Term, 1871, of Northampton Superior Court. On the trial one Joseph Barham was introduced by the defendant to sustain the character of another witness. He stated he knew the general character of the witness, and it was good.
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Issue of -Bastardy tried before Clark, J. at Spring Term, 1871, of Northampton Superior Court. On the trial one Joseph Barham was introduced by the defendant to sustain the character of another witness. He stated he knew the general character of the witness, and it was good. He was then asked, Would you believe the witness on oath? The Solicitor objected, and his Honor ruled out the question, but permitted the witness to be asked, if from his knowledge of the general character of the witness he would believe him on oath. Defendant excepted. The mother of the bastard child was examined as a…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyden, J.
There are two objections made on the record. But the first, as to the testimony of the witness Joseph Bar-ham, has been properly abandoned by the counsel for the defendant.
The remaining question, as to the right of the plaintiff to exhibit the alleged bastard child and to call the attention of the jury to the child’s features, was argued with much earnestness, and the right, thus to exhibit the child before the jury, strenuously denied.
The first answer to this is, that no objection on the trial was taken to this course of the Solicitor by the defendant; but apparently^, as we take it, he was…
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