Gresley v. State ex rel. Neireiter

The appellant was prosecuted under the statute regulating proceedings in bastardy cases, and a judgment was rendered against him.

In answer to the affidavit filed by the prosecution, the appellant pleaded that, in November, 1888, the relatrix filed an affidavit before a justice of the peace charging him with being the father of the bastard child of which she was then pregnant; that a trial was had; that subsequently the relatrix admitted, and caused to be entered in open court an admission, that provision for the maintenance of the child had been made to her satisfaction, and signed the entry…