State v. Camp

BALEY, Judge.

The issue presented by this case is: May the courts take judicial notice of the principles of heredity upon which blood tests for paternity are based? Our answer is yes. The trial court in this case should have taken judicial notice that two parents of blood group 0 cannot have a child of blood group A, and the jury should have been so instructed.

“There are many facts of which the court may take judicial notice, and they should take notice of whatever is, or ought to be, generally known within the limits of their jurisdiction, for justice does not require that courts profess to…