Order reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and new trial ordered.
No foundation was laid for the receipt in evidence of the certificate of the doctor as to the duration of the pregnancy. It was pure hearsay which cannot be said, on this record, not to have influenced the Trial Judge to find defendant responsible for the pregnancy, notwithstanding the testimony of his witnesses that they had had intercourse with the complainant and that they so testified...
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