134 Iowa 599 | Iowa | 1907
The facts necessary to a proper understanding of this ease and the legal question involved herein are substantially as follows: The father and mother of an illegitimate child left the home of the girl’s parents between seven and eight o’clock on the evening of June 14th, taking the baby, then about two weeks old, with them. By previous arrangement, the' defendant, driving another rig, met these parties about eleven o’clock p. m. the same night between Marengo and North River Bridge, and the box containing the baby and some of its wearing apparel was transferred from the buggy in which it had been taken to that point, to the conveyance which was occupied by the defendant, and which he was driving. The parents of the baby continued on to. the town of Marengo in their conveyance, and the defendant with his conveyance and the box and the baby also went to Marengo. There the father of the baby joined the defendant, and together they drove to Williams-burg, where the defendant deposited thé box and the baby on the porch of the residence of Mrs. Mary Brannan, where the baby was found at about ten o’clock the next morning. The evidence tends to show that before reaching Mrs. Bran-nan’s home, where the baby was left, the father gave it the nursing bottle containing milk, but that the defendant took it from the carriage, carried it to the porch of Mrs. Bran-nan’s house, and left it there.
It may further he said that the question whether the child was intrusted or confided to the defendant is a ques
We have given the record in this case careful examination, and are unable to discover any error for which there should be a reversal. The judgment is therefore affirmed.