Powell v. Johnson

The petition was for habeas corpus by the mother to recover possession of a child.

The appellee ip the mother of Sammie Lee Powell, who is about 8 years old. When this child was about eight months old, its mother, who lived at Bessemer, let the child go to Georgia Powell, who lived with her husband and family on a farm near Eutaw, in Green county. The child was carried to the home of appellant by one Lucy Reynolds.

There is a tendency of evidence tb the ef-' feet that Henry Powell, the son of appellant, is the putative father of said child. The appellant took the child on its reaching her home,…