Causey v. State

Homer Causey was convicted under an indictment charging that on May 4, 1929, he, “being the father of a bastard child born to Erma Yawn, the prosecutrix,” did refuse “to give bond in terms of the law . . for the support, maintenance, and education of said child until it arrives at the age of fourteen years.” The exception here is to the judgment overruling his motion for a new trial.

*428Two questions arise in the trial of a bastardy case — first, whether the accused is the father of the child, and, second, whether he failed and refused to comply with a valid order requiring him to give security…