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  "id": 428202,
  "name": "Nelson Maloney v. The People of the State of Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Maloney v. People",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
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    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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      "cite": "37 Ill. 257",
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      "reporter": "Ill.",
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Nelson Maloney v. The People of the State of Illinois."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Lawrence\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nThis court has decided in Mann v. The People, 35 Ill., and again at the present term in Pease v. Hubbard, 37 Ill. 257, that a prosecution for bastardy is not a criminal proceeding. The instruction, therefore, requiring the defendant to be.proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, was properly refused by the Circuit Court.\nJudgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Lawrence"
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Ingersoll and Puterbaugh, for the plaintiff,in error.",
      "Mr. Charles Blanchard and Mr. A. E. Stevenson, for the defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Nelson Maloney v. The People of the State of Illinois.\n1. Bastardy\u2014not a criminal proceeding. A prosecution for bastardy to compel a putative father to support an illegitimate child, is not a criminal proceeding.\n2. Same\u2014degree of evidence required to convict. It is not essential to establish the guilt of the party charged in such a proceeding, that it should be proven beyond a reasonable doubt; a preponderance of proof is saiSeient.\nWrit of Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford County; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding.\nThis was a prosecution against Nelson Maloney for bastardy, to compel him to support an illegitimate child of Maria Owen, of which he was alleged to be the father. Upon a trial the defendant was found guilty, and he brings the cause to this court, insisting that the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that they could not convict unless he was proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.\nMessrs. Ingersoll and Puterbaugh, for the plaintiff,in error.\nMr. Charles Blanchard and Mr. A. E. Stevenson, for the defendant in error."
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