Beckett v. State ex rel. Rothert

This was a prosecution for bastardy, and is now in this court for the Second time. Beckett v. State, ex rel., 4 Ind. App. 136.

The action was originally commenced before a justice of the peace of Dearborn county, and the appellant not having been arrested, the trial proceeded in his absence, and the court having found and adjudged him to be the father of such bastard, the cause was duly certified to the Dearborn Circuit Court, as provided by section 998, R. S. 1894.

On the former appeal it was held that a personal judgment could not be rendered against - the appellant when the only service of…