Luke v. State

The defendant was charged with the offense of misdemeanor, in that he, with force and arms on March 15, 1940, unlawfully “upon the body of one Mattie Lee Smith did wilfully beget a bastard child. She the said Mattie Lee Smith being then an unmarried woman and the said bastard child as begotten by said Julus Luke was born on December 16, 1940, and has become a county charge, and he the said Júlus Luke after a bastardy hearing before the Hon. J. W. Stallings, justice of the peace of the 714th Dist. G. M. of Carroll County, Georgia, being committed upon the said bastardy warrant by said judge,…