Crow v. Jordan

• Decision Date: 06 December 1892
• Citation: 32 N.E. 750,49 Ohio St. 655
• Parties: CROW v. JORDAN.
• Court: Ohio Supreme Court

32 N.E. 750

49 Ohio St. 655

CROW v. JORDAN.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

December 6, 1892

Error to circuit court, Sctoto county.

An action by Jordan against Crow for bastardy.The circuit court sustained the court of common pleas in overruling defendant's objections to the admission of testimony, and he brings error.Affirmed.

Syllabus by the Court

On the trial of an action of bastardy at the January term, A. D 1889, of the court of common pleas of Scioto county, Jordan to maintain the issue on her part, offered herself as a witness, and gave testimony tending to prove that she was an unmarried woman, and had never been married; that she was delivered of a bastard child on the 19th day of July, 1888 in a township in Scioto county, where she resided; that Crow was the father of the child; and that the child was still living.Her counsel then asked her the following question ‘ Is that the child?’ -alluding to an infant or small child, then held by the witness in her arms and upon her lap, and in view of the jury, during the time she had been giving her testimony before the court and jury.The defendant, by his counsel, objected to the question.The court overruled the objection, to which the defendant excepted, and...