Show I TECHNICAl ERROR IS CAUSE fOR RETRIAL l Supreme Court Passes on Validity Validity Validity Val Val- of Illegitimacy Statute Yesterday the state supreme court declared the Illegitimacy statute of ot Utah passed In 1911 1911 to be valid and effective the tho decision coming in the case of ot the State of or Utah respondent against Moses loses Reese appellant Prior to May C G 6 1912 an unmarried woman whose name Is not given in the opinion handed down clown yesterday made mado application to and received complaint from a justice of ot the peace of ot Logan alleging that Reese a n. married man was the father of at her unborn child Reese was arraigned and pleaded not guilty was held to the district court and a jury declared him to be the fa father father father fa- fa ther of ot the unborn child as charged by bythe bytho bytho tho the woman The district court ordered him to pay PM during tho the first year of ot the childs child's life lito and USO a year durIng during during dur dur- ing the seventeen subsequent years In Inthe Inthe the event of ot his refusal or failure to pay the Judgment he would bo be guilty of at contempt and remanded to prison The supreme courts court's opinion rendered through Judge J. J E. E Frick with unanimous unanimous concurrence holds that chapter 61 of at the session laws of ot 1911 which is based upon the Illinois statute bearIng bearIng bearing bear- bear Ing upon the same subject is valid The pros prosecution of ot Reese was as had under under under un un- un- un der this statute and he attacked Its validity Tho The court holds however that the tho trial court committed an er error error or- or In compelling one of ot the defendants defendant's defendants defendant's defend defend- ants ant's witnesses s to answer relating to his own conduct which would degrade him The Tho case is therefore therefore there there- fore tore remanded for tor a a. new trial U I |