Hancock v. Hallmann

Defendant was charged by the complaint of Emil Bornick with having ravished the daughter of Bor-nick, a female over sixteen years of age, by force and against her will. On June 15, 1938, a preliminary examination was held before the county judge of Marquette county. Upon prosecutrix being sworn, counsel for defendant objected to her competency upon the grounds that she was of such limited intelligence and suffering from such insane delusions and hallucinations as to be incompetent as a witness. The objection was overruled, the court stating that it would be in better position to' determine…