People Ex Rel. Perz v. Schneemilch

This is an appeal from an order finding the defendant not guilty and discharging him after trial on a complaint of paternity and from the trial court’s denial of plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The cause was heard by the court without a jury.

The only question of importance in this case is whether it was error for defendant’s attorney, without the knowledge of the plaintiff, to arrange to have sent to the magistrate the results of a lie detector test taken by the defendant.

In preparing the record for appeal it developed that a written report of a polygraph examination of the defendant,…