Mooney v. People

The case is against appellant according to the act concerning bastardy. August 25, 1900, Ida Hudson, an unmarried woman, complained on oath before a justice of the peace that she had been delivered of a child, deemed in law a bastard, and that appellant was the father of it. A warrant was issued for the arrest of appellant, in which the fact of such complaint, and the purport of it, was recited, and appellant was brought before the justice of the peace and the cause continued until August 31, 1900, at 9 o’clock a. m., and the defendant refusing to give a recognizance in the sum of $900, as…