Looney v. State

This is a bastardy proceeding, instituted by Coretta Hines before a justice of the peace. The appellant was bound over to the circuit court for trial.

It is first insisted that prejudicial error prevailed by the action of the court in overruling the defendant’s motion to quash the proceedings because the appearance bond of the defendant did not require him to appear at the next session of the circuit court. We do not accord to appellant’s insistence in this connection. Williams v. State, 113 Ala. 58, 21 So. 463. In that case the Supreme Court held, where a defendant in bastardy proceeding's is…