Medler v. State ex rel. Dunn

The only question in tbis record is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. It was a bastardy case, and seeing the evidence upon paper, with no such opportunity as the judge and jury below bad of determining upon tbe credibility of witnesses, it appeal's quite probable that tbe verdict should bave been tbe other way. But tbis is not enough to justify ns in reversing tbe *172case. To one who saw the witnesses and heard them testify, there may have appeared good reason for disbelieving some of them. The evidence was contradictory, and we must therefore assume that the judge…