Lavender v. State ex rel. Craig

J. ED TEASE, Retired Circuit Judge.

The two cases before us involve appeals by Willie George Lavender from adjudications of paternity by the circuit court after nonjury, ore tenus proceedings.

These cases were instituted by two separate complainants in the Juvenile Court of Pickens County alleging appellant to be the natural father of three children.

After the actions were filed, but before trial, appellant and the State of Alabama (through the assistant district attorney) jointly requested that “an HLA type” blood test be performed on appellant, the mothers, and the children involved.…