People ex rel. Chichester v. Jewel

The evidence justified the court of sessions in pronouncing the judgment which it did. The complainant testified clearly and distinctly to the sexual intercourse which resulted in her becoming with child. It is, in usual course, almost impossible to adduce testimony of the principal fact, beyond the statement of the party or parties engdged therein. From this record, however, it appears that proof was given by other persons showing a considerable intimacy between the complainant and the defendant, and that they were seen together at about the time when the intercourse resulting in pregnancy…