Corcoran v. People

The appellant was charged with being the father of the illegitimate child of Bridget Cash man, who was an unmarried w'ornan. The truth of the charge rested upon the unsupported testimony of the mother of the child, who testified to but one act of illicit intercourse between her and the appellant, which she claims took place at a picnic on William Butler’s premises on the evening of the 24th of August, 1884, and that the child was born May 17, 1885. According to her testimony no other act of illicit intercourse ever took place with him either before or after that time, though he had attempted…