People v. Swanson

Defendant was tried and convicted by verdict of a jury in the circuit court of Ottawa county of being the father of an illegitimate child borne, on July 18,1920, by a girl 16 years of age named Maude Hayward. The proceedings were instituted under the so-called bastardy act relative to maintenance of illegitimate children (2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 7753 et seq.). The intercourse by which the child was begotten is charged in the complaint against him to have taken place “on or about the 22d day of October, A. D. 1919, at the township of Crockery in front of her father’s home,” in said county. After *105M…