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PROCEEDINGS IN BASTARDY.
    Circuit Court of Hamilton County.
    John Campbell v. State, ex rel Elva J. Cain.
    
    Decided, June 3, 1911.
    
      Order of Trial in a Bastardy Case — Discretion of Court as to Order of Admitting Evidence — Error—Section 12122.
    
    In the trial of a bastardy case, failure to read before complainant rests the transcript of the evidence given by the complainant before the magistrate, does not constitute prejudicial error where the reading of the transcript occurred before the defendant was placed on the witness stand.
    
      Thomas H. Kelley, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Jos. T. Harrison, contra.
    Jones, J.; Smith, P. J., and Swing, J., concur.
    
      
       Affirmed by the Supreme Court without opinion, Campbell v. State, ex rel, 88 Ohio State.
    
   The jury found the defendant below guilty as charged in the complaint after hearing the evidence adduced and proper instructions by the court.

We think the failure of plaintiff below to read the transcript of complainant’s evidence, as given before the magistrate, at the proper time is not prejudicial error.

The transcript was referred to in the trial by counsel before plaintiff rested and'it was within the discretion of the court to permit it to be read later, especially as it was read before defendant placed a witness on the stand.

The evidence is conflicting, as it always is in eases of this nature. The jury heard it with full opportunity to note the interest and demeanor of the witnesses and were the sole judges of the reliability and credibility of the.testimony offered.-

Finding no error the judgment will be affirmed.