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.