Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

People ex rel. Norbauts v. Lucas

Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided December 11, 1914 · Thompson

193 Ill. App. 431

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Bastards, § 34*—when instruction harmless. The introduction to an instruction given for relatrix in a prosecution for bastardy, that it was a civil proceeding to provide for the support and maintenance of the bastard child of the prosecuting witness, while faulty, or not giving the jury any information concerning any issue submitted to it, is harmless error where it is followed by a concrete statement of the law applicable to the case.

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