Jones v. State

1. This is a bastardy case, in. which the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called the defendant) was convicted in Chattooga County, Georgia. Counsel for the defendant states that there are only two questions presented by him. The first is, was the venue sufficiently proven by the State to be in Chattooga County? The second proposition is that the evidence is not sufficient to support a verdict of guilty in view of the fact that the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the prosecutrix was an unmarried woman at the time of the alleged intercourse which resulted in the birth of the…