PEOPLE v. SWEET

Docket No. 66, Calendar No. 46,568.

346 Mich. 684 (1956)

78 N.W.2d 598

PEOPLE v. SWEET.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided October 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, Gerald K. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney, Angelo A. Pentolino and Peter D. Bartholomew, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for plaintiff.

George E. Lee, for defendant.


BOYLES, J.

The defendant was tried before a jury in the circuit court for Wayne county, charged with being the father of a male child born out of wedlock, on the complaint of the child's mother — commonly referred to as a bastardy proceeding.* He was found guilty by the jury, and on leave granted appeals.

He seeks reversal solely on claims that the trial court committed prejudicial and reversible errors in charging the jury...

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