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  "id": 2884525,
  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Emeleco Norbauts, Appellee, v. Andrew Lucas, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "People ex rel. Norbauts v. Lucas",
  "decision_date": "1914-12-11",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "431",
  "last_page": "432",
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      "cite": "193 Ill. App. 431"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Emeleco Norbauts, Appellee, v. Andrew Lucas, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n4. Bastards, \u00a7 34*\u2014when instruction harmless. The introduction to an instruction given for relatrix in a prosecution for bastardy, that it was a civil proceeding to provide for the support and maintenance of the bastard child of the prosecuting witness, while faulty, or not giving the jury any information concerning any issue submitted to it, is harmless error where it is followed by a concrete statement of the law applicable to the case.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Edward O. Knotts and Peebles & Peebles, for appellant.",
      "James H. Murphy and Victor H. Hemphill, for appellee; Rinaker & Rinaker, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. Emeleco Norbauts, Appellee, v. Andrew Lucas, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Bastards, \u00a7 62 \u2014when verdict not disturbed. A verdict and judgment in a prosecution for bastardy will not be disturbed as not being sustained by the weight of evidence where the evidence is conflicting, with no manifest preponderance either way, and has been approved by the trial court.\n2. Bastards, \u00a7 22*\u2014when relatrix not impeached. The court upon appeal will not consider that the relatrix in a prosecution for bastardy, a young girl of foreign extraction, who was unable to speak English and who testified only through an interpreter, was impeached by her own testimony given on cross-examination where the jury saw her on the witness stand, believed her story, and the. verdict was approved by the trial court.\n3. Witnesses, \u00a7 213*\u2014lohen excluding question previously answered not improper. It is not error in a prosecution for bastardy to sustain an objection to a question as to whether the prosecutrix had ever had improper relations with any other man between specified dates than she had told about, where the objection was that the question had already been answered and a reference to the record showed that it had been answered in substance in various forms several times.\nAppeal from the County Court of Macoupin county; the Hon. Truman A. Snell, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed December 11, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nProsecution for bastardy. Upon judgment finding defendant to be the father of the child. Defendant appeals.\nEdward O. Knotts and Peebles & Peebles, for appellant.\nJames H. Murphy and Victor H. Hemphill, for appellee; Rinaker & Rinaker, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Yols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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