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- Title: Commonwealth v. Circo
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 31, 1936
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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CROSBY, Justice. The defendant was charged in a complaint under G.L.(Ter.Ed.) c. 273, § 11, with getting the complainant, a married woman, with child on March 8, 1934, the defendant not being her husband. The complainant, who was called by the Commonwealth, testified that her name was Adeline Snow; that she was married in 1932; that she lived with her husband for two or three months; that she has not seen him since; that in February, 1934, she was not living at home, but lived in Boston; that she met the defendant in a public dance hall in Boston in February, 1934; that she had sexual intercourse with him on several occasions, the last time being about May 1, 1934; that she became pregnant; and that the defendant was the father of her child which was born January 21, 1935. The defendant excepted to the admission of the foregoing testimony of the complainant, and to the admission of any testimony on her part tending to show that her child was not legitimate. At the close of the evidence offered by the Commonwealth the defendant presented a motion for a directed verdict in his favor which was denied subject to his exception. The defendant presented the following requests for rulings: It is a rule of law that a mother cannot, by her admissions or testimony, bastardize her issue; When parties are lawfully married, neither of them can be allowed to testify, that the offspring of the mother is spurious.
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