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PEOPLE v. NICHOLS

Docket No. 83, Calendar No. 45,836.

341 Mich. 311 (1954)

67 N.W.2d 230

PEOPLE v. NICHOLS.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 29, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Millard, Attorney General, Stuart Hoffius, Prosecuting Attorney, and Berton Sevensma, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for plaintiff.

Konrad D. Kohl and Paul L. Greer, for defendant.

BOYLES, J. (dissenting).

The defendant appeals from an order following a jury verdict of guilty of being the father of the illegitimate child of the complaining witness, a single woman. The proceeding is commonly referred to as a bastardy case, although the statute* does not use that term. The objective sought by the statute is to compel the father of an illegitimate child to assist in its support, and to prevent the child from...

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