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MURPHY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1143.

85 A.2d 805 (1952)

MURPHY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 11, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Morris, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Edward A. Beard, James T. Brennan, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, and Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Sitting without a jury the Juvenile Court found appellant to be the father of a child born out of wedlock to a married woman and entered an order requiring him to support the child.

Appellant questions the constitutionality of the Act under which he was charged. Public Law 917, Chapter 1225, 81st Congress, 2d Session, approved January 11, 1951, 64 Stat. 1240. He points out that the child was born prior to the passage of the Act, when married...

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