State v. Kvenmoen

The complaining witness charges the defendant with being the father of her child. The jury sustained the charge, an order for judgment and judgment were entered thereunder, and the defendant appeals.

The child was born in the House of Mercy on January 27, 1929.' The superintendent, who had oversight of the House of Mercy said the child was normal, was fully developed though it weighed but four pounds when born, and that she had ample opportunity for observation as seventy babies per year are born in that Home. The only doctor who testified stated the normal period of gestation was from two…