Stevens v. State
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District (hurt. At the February term, 1889, Thaddeus Stevens was convicted of bastardy, and, on the judgment entered, he brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s first assignment of error is as follows: That said district court erred in ruling out and excluding evidence offered by said Thaddeus Stevens on the trial of said action in said district court, to which said Stevens excepted.
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Error from Douglas District (hurt. At the February term, 1889, Thaddeus Stevens was convicted of bastardy, and, on the judgment entered, he brings error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. Plaintiff’s first assignment of error is as follows: That said district court erred in ruling out and excluding evidence offered by said Thaddeus Stevens on the trial of said action in said district court, to which said Stevens excepted. The plaintiff in error produced one John Heathman as a witness, and sought to prove by him the contents of a certain letter written by the prosecuting witness,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Green, C.:
This was an action brought under the act providing. for the maintenance and support of ille*715gitimate children. Sidney Brewer, an unmarried woman, charged Thaddeus Stevens, the plaintiff in error, with being the father of her bastard child. A trial was had in the district court of Douglas county, and he was found to be the father of the child, and adjudged to pay the sum of $2,000 for securing the maintenance and education of such child. The plaintiff in error brings the case here, and relies upon two assignments of error for a reversal of the judgment.
It is first contended…
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