Kelly v. State

This is an appeal taken in a bastardy proceedings in which the traverser reserved thirty-seven exceptions, and in which the State has made a motion to- dismiss the appeal on the ground that -there was no final judgment on the conviction.

1. The appellant first interposed a motion to quash the indictment, and then a plea to the jurisdiction, which were held to be insufficient. Both the motion and the plea rested on the common point that the trial 'court was without jurisdiction because the indictment was found against the traverser without the mother of the bastard having first accused the…