Freeman v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Freeman v. People, 54 Ill. 162 (Ill. 1870)
Breese
Freeman v. People
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The only question necessary to notice, arising on this record, is as to the competency of the putative father of an illegitimate child as a witness in his own .behalf on the trial of the charge.
It is settled by the case of Starr v. The People, 50 Ill. 52, that he is a competent witness.
For the error in rejecting him the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Judgment reversed.
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- Charles Freeman v. The People of the State of Illinois
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- Witness—competency. Under the act of 1867, relating to disqualification by interest, the putative father of án illegitimate child, who is the defendant in a prosecution for bastardy, is a competent witness in his own behalf.