Standridge v. State

BERRY, Justice.

Involved herein is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict of guilty in a civil action under 10 O.S.Supp.1965, § 71, for bastardy.

Complainant, a 21 year old orphan reared by foster parents, was a university student in Fayetteville, Arkansas, maintaining herself by employment as a nurse’s aide in a local hospital at the time of conception. Defendant, a 39 year old married man, initiated the meretricious relationship upon meeting plaintiff, while his wife was a patient in the hospital. Upon very short acquaintance the parties inaugurated a regular, intimate…