State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Carroll District Court. Ti-ie defendant was charged witb being the father of a bastard child. Trial by jury. Yerdict, guilty, and judgment. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
i. bastardv: struction.'m — I. The prosecutrix testified that the defendant had sexual intercourse with her twice; once in June, 1S79, and again about one week afterward. She testified that the child wras then begotten. It was born on the twenty-third day of January, 1880. The physician present when the child was born gave evidence tending to show that its birth was premature. The prosecutrix did not fix the day in June when the first intercourse took place, but' there was evidence tending to show that it must, accord*539ing to a certain fact stated by the prosecutrix, have occurred on the…
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