Supreme Court of Iowa, 1877

State v. Read

Supreme Court of Iowa · Decided April 3, 1877 · Adams

45 Iowa 469

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2 later published cases cite this decision.

State v. Seevers (Iowa 1899)
Altschuler v. Algaza (Neb. 1884)

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Opinion of the Court

Adams, J.

i. criminal bastardy. If the complainant was accustomed, both before and after the child was conceived, to occupy the same bed with a person who might have been the father of the child, evidence of such fact, we think, was admissible, as tending to affect the credibility of the complainant’s testimony.

In excluding such evidence we think that the District Court erred.

Reversed.

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