Baehr v. State

The appellant was indicted and convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of bastardy. The indictment charged that the child was begotten on the 13th of February, 1918, and that it was born on the 1st of October, 1918. The case was tried beioz-e tbe Court without a jury on the plea of not guilty, and this appeal brings up for review the rulings of the Court below on the evidence embraced in five bills of exception.

The indictment was found on the 25th of November, 1918, and it appears from statements of counsel in the record that the trial was postponed several times to enable the traverser…