Case ID: minn_159/html/0062-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dibell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. FRANK LONG.
    
    April 4, 1924.
    No. 23,961.
    Verdict of guilty sustained.
    The evidence sustains a verdict finding the defendant guilty of bastardy.
    Bastardy proceedings in the district court for Chippewa county. The matter was tried before Qvale, J., who at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which found defendant guilty as charged. From an order denying, his motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
    Affirmed.
    
      C. D. Bensel, for appellant.
    
      Clifford L. Hilton, Attorney General, and Alphonso E. Kief, County Attorney, for respondent.
    
      
       Reported in 197 N. W. 964.
    
   Dibell, J.

The defendant was found guilty of bastardy and appeals from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The child was born on February 16, 1923. The woman had intercourse with a man other than the defendant on May 17, 1922. She claims that she had intercourse with the defendant on June 10, 1922. The defendant admits that he had intercourse, with the woman, but claims that it was in the latter part of July, 1922. Both the woman and the defendant are corroborated. The woman’s testimony shows a normal menstrual period commencing June 1, 1922, and lasting until June 6, 1922. The question of guilt was one of fact for the jury subject to the control of the trial court.

Order affirmed.